Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for help? How do others ignore them without feeling bad?
Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for help? How do others ignore them without feeling bad?
I want to give them money but since my childhood my parents pretty much told me that they are all either faking it or are too lazy to go to work for money. I mean, I guess they can go to work but not everyone gets accepted to work as easy as it sounds like.
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Yes, it's normal. Even if they are faking it, it's still a bad situation that they feel the need to do it. Most of them have mental problems and can't find or even look for work. Without work you have to apply for benefits in most countries and some are not capable of this beurocratic process. Without benefits they have no health insurance in most countries and therefore can't get treatment. Also, without a home address and internet it's difficult to find or apply for a job in many regions abd without a job it's difficult to get a home address and internet.
However, there's too many to help them individually. This is not your problem as a person, but our problem as a scociety. You'll be overwhelmed caring for all of them. Instead, you should try and help passing laws and regulations to help them in your region. In the EU, for example 2016 a law has been made so everyone may create a basic bank account, even if they are homeless or foreigners. This is important, because before that in many regions you couldn't get hired or payed because the banks required your home address and without pay or a bank account you couldn't get a home or work.
Instead, you should try and help passing laws and regulations to help them in your region.
no, because -
In the EU, for example 2016 a law has been made so everyone may create a basic bank account, even if they are homeless or foreigners
that is literally less than bare minimum and only provides help to those already getting support (applying for benefits takes much more than a bank account, without additional support, and a societal framework to end homelessness instead of making it "more manageable", being able to get an account is still useless).
The only action any individual can take to end homelessness is to become an active anti-capitalist, since as long as capitalism exists, so will homelessness.
So i saw this response of yours first, and wondered why you're coming in so hard against someone that: 1) proposed a solution, 2) did not insist it was the only solution, and 3) was opening a dialogue of how to help, instead of dismissing the homeless as most of society does.
Then i saw your responses in the rest of the thread and realized either
A) You're a troll Or B) You're socially inexperienced
Your responses to other people show that you think your opinion is the only correct one. Before you immediately bang away on the keyboard defending yourself, please take a moment to reflect on how your speech affects your cause. The adage "you attract more flies with honey than vinegar" may not be scientifically correct, but it is socially accurate.
In general, kindness is never wrong. Be kind to others, including strangers on the internet. OTOH, if you can't play nice, go touch grass and let the adults have a conversation.
Oh, and you're not wrong about capitalism being part of the problem. You are wrong that working for policy change is "less than bare minimum". Doing nothing, that is less than bare minimum