When Welfare Goes Wrong...

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Originally Posted by Aliantha

As I said, my ideas on charity are different to yours and if you want it plainly, then yes, I do believe anyone who doesn't care to give to strangers or 'bums' as you so nicely put it, is less charitable than someone who chooses to show their charity closer to home.

Again, though, you're trying to make nice-nice, you're inserting and adding things into what I've said. Strangers are not the same as homeless (there like that word better), I am perfectly willing to help charities (that I trust) that help strangers, or people I don't know. I trust the the charity is helping those it KNOWS needs help, therefore by my association with them I am helping people I KNOW need help. Not necessarily people I know personally or have relations with. Right now I don't have the ability to help monetarily or physically as much as I want to, so I prioritize. Yes it is easier to help those I'm closer too, but that isn't my only goal. I still would not give money to homeless, I would give to a homeless shelter, soup kitchen, ect. Those charities that help the homeless a lot more in the long run than my pocket change would.