(December 28, 2011 at 10:27 pm)aleialoura Wrote: One night I went downtown to a restaurant I love and bought 2 quarts of their most delicious soup to take home and share with my boyfriend and kids. This homeless guy approached me as I was leaving and asked me for money to get some food. I tried to hand him a quart of soup, and he got pissed, and said, "Naw, I want some money!"
I don't hand money to homeless people anymore, for that reason, but I do donate food to food banks around town. Mostly soup.
I do not recommend people do what I do - in this case because I'm a six foot male who "radiates craziness." Which is to say yours is a "more logical form of charitable expression." From having gotten into it with homeless peeps over such an issue, often "money for food" translates into money for entertainment - booze, drugs, whatever - and the individual who practices such duplicity is actually seeking to preserve his or her own moral identity.