I'm sick of being accosted by beggars. Especially if you have a coffee outside at a pavement table in Dublin you're guaranteed to be accosted by 3 different beggars. I overheard a conversation between 3 beggars at the Luas stop at Stephen's Green, talking about accommodation. One said that he'd been given 3 nights in a B&B but never went as he just didn't get around to it. I'm happy enough to give to charity (though that last b*gg*r was defrauding the taxpayer) but I refuse to hand out cash to beggars cos it just encourages them.
So...2 questions:
if you give to beggars, why do you do so?
If everyone stopped giving to beggars, would they vanish or would there be an increase in petty theft, pick-pocketing, and mugging?
ISPCC recently called on people not to give money to beggars - at least children begging.Well even the charities are saying you shouldn't give money to people begging and especially children so I am not sure why people still do it either.
Seems to me that the powers that be are content to leave the many winos and junkies, who can barely look after themselves never mind anybody else, around Dublin city to keep their kids in tow in spite of the obvious dangers to the health and wellbeing of the children. Not sure if changes in children's rights legislation will change this?These children should be taken into care immediately and parents made jump through hoops to get them back!
Yeah, 'cos children in care and foster homes are so well treated, they'd never miss their parents.......children should be taken into care immediately ....
Whenever I see children begging I usually try and stop into a spar buy a sandwhich and juice and give it to them. I never give money.
I didn't know they had Spar shop in Switzerland
Yeah, 'cos children in care and foster homes are so well treated, they'd never miss their parents...
I didn't know they had Spar shop in Switzerland
there is [broken link removed] . Spar are all over Europe. In fact they claim that "SPAR is the world's largest retail chain with 17500 stores in 32 countries on five continents".
I didn't know they had Spar shop in Switzerland
This is what I was getting as but it was a bit too abstract.Perhaps he meant to say- ' I didn't know they had beggars in Switzerland'
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