Yohan wrote: ↑August 3rd, 2023, 1:07 am
Pixel--Dude wrote: ↑July 29th, 2023, 1:58 am
Yohan wrote: ↑July 28th, 2023, 7:51 pm
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About helping others in general, if it makes any sense why not to help? But helping should result in improvement. Many people are not willing to work hard to improve their own situation and are even ungrateful for help? Why to help them? Why to give something to aggressive beggars? To drug junkies who will use your money to buy drugs again...etc.
.....I think your comment about how some people are not willing to work hard is an ignorant one. Some people DO work hard and then all it takes is an unlucky day where they lose their job and suffer from mounting debt and lose their home, then they become homeless.
I don't think, my comment is 'ignorant'. Try to change such people who prefer to live in the streets - most of them will not even listen to you.
Such people are totally unwilling to do anything productive, living from garbage, are into drugs and alcohol etc.
There are only a few 'bright ones' willing to work, willing to do something to get out of their difficult situation - this guy for example...
but he does not ask anybody for help. He is confident to be able to improve his life, in future not to become homeless again and to have jobs and earn enough money....
A lot of people find themselves homeless and on the streets because of circumstances out of their own control. By giving them spare change I am helping them get through the day and nothing more. They will spend it on drugs or alcohol maybe but that's what helps them get through the night. Have you ever tried sleeping on the streets sober?
The ones you call "bright ones" might still have hope of improving their own situation, but doesn't the video and example you provided just prove my point? Not everyone chooses to be homeless. It could happen to absolutely anyone at any time. Some of these homeless people, who get ignored by the majority of society, might just lose hope completely and that is why they become "dumb ones" or whatever.
Why should homelessness even exist in a so-called advanced society? There are people who have so much money (more money than they could ever need in a lifetime) and they could help eradicate homelessness or at least provide some of these people with a decent head start. Instead of investing money into helping or providing shelter to homeless people our governments see them as an inconvenience and spend money putting "arm rests" on benches, spikes under bridges and under shop windows to stop homeless seeking even rudimentary comfort or shelter. It's an absolute joke.
That's why I called your comment ignorant, because you are ignorant. You assume homeless people can be neatly separated into categories of "bright ones" who are salvageable slaves and then lazy bums who don't deserve any help at all, but you totally disregard what factors make them the way they are such as mental illness or severe depression! You blame alcoholism and drug addiction most likely. When these things are more than likely just byproducts of homelessness. If I was homeless I would become an alcoholic or a drug addict as well.
Where is your empathy and compassion for others? Don't you think that it's terrible that homelessness exists? I'm not saying
@Winston or anyone else should feel obligated to ALWAYS give change to homeless, as we're all people trying to gey by and none of us have a networth anywhere near large enough to make a dent in homelessness.
You are free to make any decision you desire, but you are not free from the consequences of those decisions.