It has been my habit to never encourage begging and therefore i never give alms to beggars. However, i have begun to question this practice of mine. I have begun feeling that this practice of mine needs to take care of certain exceptions. I have also begun feeling that, this is more because i don't trust people easily and i don't wanna get fooled. Huh?? what the hell is that supposed to mean rite??
After having listened to numerous stories about how people were fooled by beggars who faked being disabled from my near and dear ones, the same stories keep popping up in my mind everytime a beggar comes my way. And in my effort to prove a point or to prove to myself subconsciously that nobody can fool me, i just don't accept the fact that a person could genuinely be in an adverse condition.
I don't know if anyone of u out there feel the same way. Maybe i have become completely insensitive.
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I wud like to cite a excerpt from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged..
one of the protagonist says that Robin Hood was one of the worst enemies of humanity.. Why?
because he took money from the rich - who worked hard to make that money to the poor people - who didn't really 'earn' that robbed money..
There is nothing insensitive in not giving alms to poor.. it is your hard earned money.. no body has right to 'get' money..
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