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Originally Posted by Dirty
...I feel like a lot of people look down on a homeless bum. You'll see a homeless guy sitting there and all he wants is pocket change but most people won't spare it. But if there was a cute cat sitting there and it looked like it needed help, I bet more people would be ready to help it out.
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Your perception of panhandlers definitely sounds like a person who has never lived in the city. A lot of the time the guy asking for change on the corner is
not the person you want to be giving money to, he's the as
shole who was able to intimidate everyone else into giving up that corner. You'd be helping people in need a hell of a lot more by giving money to a homeless shelter than you would be by giving it to whatever random person on the street happens to ask you for it. And I think a lot of people do exactly that. I'm willing to bet far more people donate to or help out at homeless shelters than at animal shelters.