[takbodan]

I feel bad when I'm with my children and decline to give to a homeless guy, but I explain to them that he may buy booze or drugs with the money and I don't want to be responsible for messing him up worse. I remember once I gave money to a homeless man in NYC. He ran to the nearest wine shop.

[mudblood]

"I feel bad when..."

I empathize. Despite my last post, truthfully I have given money to them occasionally. But I usually give it to the guy who's curled up on a bench, not begging at all. I avoid the shambling stick-figures who buy crack and the overfed bums with the cardboard signs. Or anyone with the "homeless limp" as I like to call it.

[Lazamataz]

I feel bad when I'm with my children and decline to give to a homeless guy, but I explain to them that he may buy booze or drugs with the money and I don't want to be responsible for messing him up worse. I remember once I gave money to a homeless man in NYC. He ran to the nearest wine shop.

I give to the bums with the express instruction that they MUST buy booze with it.

Then maybe they will finally hit bottom.

And when they finally hit bottom, maybe they'll try Alcoholics Anonymous.