How privileged do you have to be to openly say you refuse to give homeless people money because you're afraid they'll use it on drugs or alcohol. How can you look at a homeless person and assume they're an addict? Furthermore, how can you look at someone you assume is an addict and decide they aren't worthy of food, or clothes or other necessities. Addiction doesn't make a person worthless or any less deserving of human needs. You don't know their story nor are you in any position to judge them or withhold needs fr them. I may not have been begging for money and food on the streets, but I have been homeless and I have had to go to a good bank with my bio mom. We lived off of food stamps and disability, and I was lucky that we could get into a shelter, because I know if we were forced into a position of begging on the streets I know that they would assume that we were somehow playing the system. Or that my bio mom is an addict who just wants drug money and is using us to get more money. It ain't right, and I'm tired of hearing people say they won't give to the homeless because they might be addicts. That's wrong.
