Would you give the money to the beggars on the street?

I have had different experiences with beggars on the streets. I've always heard it is better to buy them some food than give them money. You never know what they may actually use the money for. Some are sincerely in need and so giving them food you don't have to worry about where the money may be possibly going, and yet you feel satisfied at knowing that you helped them out.

My suggestion to you is 1. See if the beggar can help himself. If the beggar is a strong man who is able to work, don't give him your money. I've got 2 reasons for this. First, you would better support him to go seek for a job by refusing to give him money. Second, you would better give this amount of money to beggars who really can't help himself, like a very old man. 2. If the beggar really can not help himself, try to see if he is really poor. If you can not detect any sign, just give him money. ("Unable to detect any sign does not mean that he is really poor, so I do not give him" someone might say this. But what if he is really poor, and your money can save his life? Just give! Givings make you happy. Givings can make your life better. If he is not poor, but pretend to be one, he himself will receive the bad one day. )

I never experience something like this before. But i really do not give money to the beggars on the street.

I would not give money but instead I would give food... But then again ... I will think about it. When I was younger, as I was going to eat in a burger house, I told myself, I would only eat half of the burger and I will give the other half to a beggar who would ask for me (as there's a lot of beggars in the overpass nearby). So before eating, I put aside the other half, it was clean, untouched and wrapped. As I finished and go out, a young beggar was asking for money. Then, I offered the burger instead, but he turned down the burger and told me "No, I don't like that, maybe you are sick (or has a contagious disease)". I really got angry and from then, I don't give money to them ever again. Another instance was, during college days, there's a woman, who was asking for money because she wants to go home but no money to go back (for transportation), so I gave her. After few days, I saw her again, asking one fellow student the same. I just ignored her. Years after I have graduated from that university, I came back to there in the hospital nearby and saw that old woman was doing the same thing and so happen that I was the one she was asking for money... again ... so I told her "You're not really lost, you're just fooling other people." She so angry and walked away, giving me sharp look.

If the beggar carries a baby around, it can be easily assumed that they are a scammer. If the beggar has some kind of bucket that can be easily covered and he can be seen in the same spot almost everyday, it is obvious that he is a scammer. If the beggar is a kid, it is obvious that that one is a scam and should not give him/her some money because it is an act of support toward child abuse. Helping others is good. However, helping a scammer is basically the same as supporting his scamming career, which is bad. If the beggar has a sign of truly being helpless and doesn't look like he/she is in some kind of beggar association to scam people for money, I will give him/her some money.

I don't want to judge beggars but what annoys me and it's kinda ironic because these beggars spend the whole day begging when in fact they can work or get a job. Instead of sitting on the streets, chase people just to ask for alms, why don't they look for a job.

It's quite a frequent view in my country to see beggars in the streets and sometimes they stop me and ask for money,but I never give it to them unless they are children,because I consider that children who are sent to beg are victims of their heartless oparents or other adults and I feel pity for them.Anyway,there are some people in my country who go to Western Europe to beg on the streets and they return with more money than people who try to earn a decent living,so I think people who give them money should think before doing that because most of those beggars who pretend to be handicapped are in fact healthy and they take advantage of other people's credulity.I have no compassion or understanding for such individuals and I hope the day will come when I don't see them in the streets anymore.

whenever i have a chance, i'll offer my help to a begger or somebody who need help. i cound not understand why it is a big question for you. of course, there must be some liars and cheaters. they are everywhere. But i believe the most of beggers need indeed our help. sometimes, beggers have no other way to survive but to beg something from passer-by. Just because you have come across a liar--actualy, i don't think a begger should not drink in KFC--then not to help all beggers, it is unfair, isn't it?