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What would you do if a scraggly homeless person knocked on your door, and all he asked was for a sandwich, a bottle of water, a bath, and perhaps a beard trim? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by over_clox@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I've actually skipped work just to help a homeless guy get his beard trimmed. Bought him pizza too. Kinda hard to get anywhere in life when you look like shit.

Be kind to the homeless, they just need a helping hand here and there.

What would you do?

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[–] FireTower@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's a slight but significant difference between being addicted to Starbucks and crack.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's also the fact that instead of buying a $20 cup of coffee, you can get a $2 or so cup of coffee at most any old random gas station, and still have money left to buy 2 or 3 burgers to feed a couple homeless people instead.

[–] corroded@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I don't want to buy 2 or 3 burgers to feed homeless people. I mentioned this in another comment, but the group of people who are homeless and the group of people who are addicted to meth, heroin, whatever are largely the same group, maybe with a few outliers. Why the hell would I want to buy lunch for someone who's going to go out and rob or harass someone for $20 so they can go buy a bag of their drug of choice?

People like myself (and others in this comment section) don't hate the homeless. We hate drug addicts who shit all over society (sometimes literally) in order to get their next fix.

Here's an experiment you can try: The next time you see a homeless person begging for money so they can buy some food, refuse to give them money and offer to buy them food instead. They're probably going to call you a piece of shit and if you're lucky, they might leave you alone after that, but probably not.

People need to have sympathy for the homeless, but not for addicts. We should have social programs to house the homeless, as long as they can pass a drug test. Food banks, work-placement programs, they should all exist and be taxpayer funded, as long as those using them can pass a drug test.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I've already done exactly this with an ex girlfriend. Wonder why she's an ex..