Just spent $100 on a round of drinks for some people I just got to know. Then a disabled guy I’ve known for years who hangs around my stop asked if he could borrow $30 to pay his electric and I hesitated. My priorities are all screwed up.
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By aggressive, I don't mean in tone. I mean in the relative directness of approach. Asking a stranger for money is more aggressive than what 99% of impoverished people do, which is suffer in quiet.
Hard to discuss this publicly because people will judge you and in some cases retweet what you say in an attempt to ruin your reputation (and of course make themselves look good in the process), but in my reasoned opinion, the vast majority of beggars without serious handicap are
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Some combination of liars (house burns down weekly, fake blind), lazy (able bodied but choose to beg and earn under table money plus govt benefits), or addicted to drugs or alcohol.
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I have no reason to believe this particular person is any of those things
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