Blog from when internet was down: Homeless People

In class on Tuesday we talked about whether or not you would give a homeless person a dollar. I normally don’t give them money but being in the group where you had to find exceptions to giving them a dollar kind of opened the thinking on it up for me. Part of me feels bad that they are homeless but you never know what they did to become homeless. With the amount of homeless people who are drugged out and alcoholics it is hard to tell who you can actually think deserves money among them. If someone has a drug and alcohol addiction and has not made the best decisions in life I still feel bad but it is not my fault that they made poor decisions. As far as which kind of homeless people, no I’m not categorizing the homeless; it would have to be one who I believe is a veteran or has children. I have given homeless people who have had their kids with them money before because I feel bad for the kids. If the parent is out there with their kids you know they are most likely and hopefully going to go help the kids with the money you give them. Another reason if I would give a homeless person a dollar or not is whether they look like a once wounded veteran. I feel bad for them if they have one leg or a stub for an arm for something they had no control over and that is why they ended up homeless. A lot of veterans are homeless and that is just plain wrong.