Giving homeless people MONEY instead of FOOD can save their lives this winter, shelters cost money, being able to sit in McDonald’s and nurse a coke for a couple hours to warm up costs money, often accessing public toilets (whether it’s to use them, wash up or just to be out of the wind) costs money.
Just give homeless people cash, just do it, no excuses, no whining about “enabling their drug habits”, if you have money to spare, give it and possibly save someone from literally freezing to death.
Absolutely. And this idea that people should live up to some sort of predetermined standard you have is really uncool – there is no standard for if people should be allowed to be alive.
You shouldn’t give anything because you expect a result, you should give because it’s a basic human value to nurture other souls and foster community.
I always like to offer them food first and if they don’t take it, they’re scammers. If they take the slightly smushed cereal bar from the bottom of my purse, they’re probably really homeless and I give them what change I have. Unfortunately some people pretend to be homeless to take advantage of the goodness of others hearts.
Wow you’re a real do gooder. Total hero. People who can’t eat cereal bars don’t exist. Homeless people are not allowed to need anything besides cereal bars. Everyone knows homelessness cures allergies and food intolerances too!
Do you know how regularly I turned down food when I was homeless bc people were offering me endless amounts of food and is had enough to eat!!! I didn’t want anymore fucking food because you are one of some billion people pulling this shit all the time!!! But shockingly, a lot of the time I wanted fucking tampons or a bed to sleep in that night or enough money on my tram ticket to get to my psych appointments/volunteer job/work
Like you aren’t filtering out any “fakers” lmao trust me there are way less people “faking” homelessness than everyone likes to make you think (and yes, some people begging aren’t homeless, they might have somewhere to live but no money to pay for literally anything else they need!!! And no way to make that money!!!! So yeah sometimes people begging on the street are just there bc they need to make money and unless they literally say “this is where I’m sleeping tonight” they aren’t lying or faking shit and if they are its probably because they??? Have to???? Because otherwise assholes like you think they don’t deserve any support??????? But 90% of what you’re accomplishing is just deciding who you think is Worth autonomy and Worth support and Worth things that are basic fucking human rights.
Okay but I have a question because hrowing up I was always told not to give homeless people money because theres the chance that they could use it to buy drugs or alcohol instead of something they need. Now Ive never really bought into this idea because mostly whats its doing is blaming homeless people for their homelessness which is awful but I’ve always just been conditioned to be scared to give monry because of this concern and told that tiving toiletries like tampons and other necessary items and food is better. Is this something I shouldnt worry about? Instead of putting together bags of toiletries for when I see homeless people should I instead just offer money?
Yes. Homeless people are sentient human beings capable of making their own decisions.
Bringing this back around because it’s really cold out there so please give money to homeless people if you have it.
give homeless people money, the myth that homeless people have to be forced to make the right decisions was begun bc lawmakers wanted voters believing that homeless life was cheery and pleasant and it was only Those Degenerates suffering due to their own bad choices BC THEY DIDN’T WANT TO INVEST IN FIXES THAT WOULD MAINLY HELP THE POOR, and you now fucking stupidly believe it’s “common sense” that people are not coping with pain or cold, but are in fact having fun and will continue choosing fun over being alive bc ???. give money punks
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