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• dumpsterlid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does giving to a panhandler help them or are you just enabling their lifestyle and making them dependent on that form of income which may prevent them from getting a real job?

  Criminalizing homelessness and making it a sign of essentially being a pariah in society does far more to ensure homeless people become dependent on begging for money than giving money to homeless people does.

  Most societies in history have had codified ways of beggars receiving food or basic needs from vendors, the current situation in at least the US is horrendously cruel.

  If panhandling was 100% illegal with a felony charge for those panhandling and for those giving do you think more people would pull themselves out of being homeless or would they just suffer more?

  Homelessness is not caused by laziness as the state of being homeless is exhausting both mentally and physically, thus codifying the act of being homeless and needing money as even more criminal doesn’t do anything to stop people from falling into homelessness and getting stuck there. What causes people to fall into homelessness and extreme poverty and get stuck there is how obscenely cruel our society is structured and how if you fall down everybody around you starts kicking you because that is just what we do when people fall down.

  It doesn’t really matter what a homeless person uses the money for that you give them or that the homeless person might think “oh this is a good spot to panhandle” if you give them money in that spot, but make no mistake these are trivial little details of the day, they have nothing to do with what is crushing that human being down (especially when you live in the richest country on earth like I do, and we have plenty enough resources to go around if we cared to tackle wealth inequality).

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Enables them to what?

  Live?

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• EndOfLine@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Panhandling is just asking for money. Every celebrity, politician, school, charity, church, library, little league sports team, etc I can think of has done that at one point or another. I have worked in office environments where people have come around looking for donations for this thing or that.

  How are you defining panhandling and why would it be any different than other forms of soliciting for donations? Because it sounds like your question is about policing a group of people and not an action.

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• DancingBear@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Give it to an evangelical preacher instead. He needs a personal private jet to be able to fly to his vacation homes.

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• credo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does giving to a panhandler help them or are you just enabling their lifestyle

  I think this is s generalization and a direct answer isn’t possible.

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You are assuming all panhandlers are homeless. You can’t assume that, it varies wildly from place to place and even from person to person.

  You are assuming homeless people get this way because it’s easier in some sense, and if they made an effort they could improve their lives. Again this varies wildly from person to person, but almost everybody that can improve their lives just by making an effort avoids becoming homeless.

  Or, in other words, you want universal answers. Those do not exist.

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