I have seen increasing sights of homeless over the couple of years. They are fallen to this category due to debt, depression, anxiety, drugs or being homeless also a job. Whichever the case mostly they tried to earn few coins from you with various methods.
Recently my friend asked me a question while seeing me donate to homeless. "Shiro do you know where they spend your money" . I said sure they going to eat something from it or buy some essentials they needed. He told me "they going to buy drugs dude. Don't lend them money". I just brushed it off with him but later on I really thought is it worth giving them a penny?
Answer turn out to be not so simple as that. First of all we have to consider 2 aspects. Reason for giving and reason for asking. Let's first talk about why ask? Sure enough most of homeless people don't do jobs. Either they are too depressed to do it or no one give them jobs. And so still they have to live. Eat cloths some living expenses for shelter are all required money. Sure enough some ask money because of drugs and alcohol.
What about the people who giving. Well people who give with the thought of either empathy or as a good deed or for both. Now the question is whether homeless benefits from it or they used the money for bad deeds. Well the most conclusive answer I can provide is yes. They surely benefit from your money. They eat from your money and they shelter from your money. Even though very limited are used it for drugs, they still need to eat also what most important is not what they spend it for but our thoughts of expecting this man eat today due to my contribution. If they do drugs then that's on them. They earn sins as well as bad health.
So my conclusion is please provide whenever we can help. Don't generalize the entire population based one or two's bad example. You are doing a good thing for this life as well as the life after death if you believe in that.
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