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What do you do when someone is begging for money? We see them on the side of the road holding signs, or in front of grocery or shopping malls, or maybe even people we know. Do you help when they ask for money? There are some who live off the kindness and generosity of others, always begging money, some are even able-bodied to work but prefer the handout. Should we be enabling them? What is our moral obligation and duty?
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| Posted Jul 21, 2012, 12:13 am |
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I've often wondered this.
Here, in America, a lot of the "homeless" are folks who SEEM to be lazy, and just wanting to play the system. However, poverty is always there, and perhaps some of these folks are actually and truly down on their luck.
I know that in the Philippians, where the wifey is from, beggars are networked in to syndicates who are in to a lot of nasty things.
Perhaps it can all be boiled down to: Who is your neighbor, according to the sacred scriptures.
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| Posted Jul 21, 2012, 12:17 am |
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| Guest said: | | What do you do when someone is begging for money? We see them on the side of the road holding signs, or in front of grocery or shopping malls, or maybe even people we know. Do you help when they ask for money? There are some who live off the kindness and generosity of others, always begging money, some are even able-bodied to work but prefer the handout. Should we be enabling them? What is our moral obligation and duty? |
I'd be careful about some of the conclusions you make about people like that. The overwhelming super majority of homeless people in america are white men. Typically, most people think white male = guy who is super-employable and has lots of "advantages" or "privileges." Not true.
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| Posted Jul 21, 2012, 12:45 am |
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