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A comment on Ask HN: Should I give money to a beggar on a street?.

Re:Ask HN: Should I give money to a beggar on a street? by thisone on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @07:47AM (#7909503)
what you should do is figure out why someone you don't know, to whom you own nothing, is able to make you feel so bad about not giving them anything.

Give money to beggars or don't, give money to charity or don't, give money to random people or don't.

Just figure out why you feel the way you do, I don't think anyone can do that for you.

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Re:Ask HN: Should I give money to a beggar on a street? by station909 on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @08:01AM (#7909576)
Good point. Why? Because I was poor too a long time ago. Neither I or my family begged for money, but worked really hard to get it. I sympathize, I guess. No one knows how it feels to grow in a family with low resources. It goes unnoticed.
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