It's not good to give hobos money. That's what we've been told, that is the protocol. I am supposed to feel guilty at losing $2 for giving a man some money he is inevitably going to spend on drugs and alcohol. But who am I to deny some of his lifetime if I refuse? He will just get that same money from someone else, and he will have the same exact outcome. This sounds like an argument against, but what if giving this money made you feel good? You have the illusion that you are helping someone in some small way and you think you are better because of it. Is this wrong, to think in this selfish way? What if I told you all charity you ever do is really to benefit yourself to make yourself feel good and worth something and busy? Could you deny it?
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