Would you give a meth addict a buck if he asked?

Yeah right, support all the druggies and alcoholics and bums who have ZERO pride and will ask or beg for a buck . . . forget the good people down on their luck who are too proud to beg.

%$#!

God bless you for your concern. :)

First if someone asked me for a $1 how would I know what they were going to do with it?

I don't run with meth addicts so my friends who might ask for a $1 wouldn't be druggies.

Second it's not my place to judge.

I give to guys waiting on exit ramps. But it's usually food.
I will give $ if the sign says homeless vet. Sure they could be lying but that's on them.

Carrie, "darling" It will get better. Life shouldn't be tuff, it should be easy. prepare for easy. If it sucks before easy, then fix that first. Then easy.

No worries. :) I have been blessed. I have nothing to complain about.

I don't know why, I have had a really odd feeling about you, as if there is something familiar about you. I know I do not know you but I feel for some reason as if I do or should. Does that make any sense?

Giving to an addict - of any kind - is tantamount to being party to a slow murder of another. In handing over money you've entered into that agreement. We're as responsible and accountable to our selves/god as much as we are to others. So if I wouldn't give money to a friend or family member who's an addict due to 'tough love', why would I think any less of an identified street addict? Life's tough enough for those who've made the addict choice, without me adding to their woes.
Now giving of food is a different matter...although in my part of the world it needs to be opened first or the person begging will often try to return it to the store for cash (esp if they're an addict)or sell to other homeless/addicts.

lol Believe it or not, I have considered this very issue. And again, I will say, I have never felt led to give money. I have never, to my knowledge, come across a drug addicted homeless person. If I had, I did not know. If I had, I would have prayed for guidance as to how I should help. If I were led to give money, then of course, that is what I would do. It is sad many people will be harmed due to drug use. It is a fact of life that I believe we can change. We can change it only if there are more people who cared for others and truly loved others as themselves or as their family. There is a saying, it takes a village to raise a child. The same holds true to crime and drug addiction. It takes a community to help those in need of help.

Well, that was kind of my unspoken point, what if they are actually going to use it to buy food. Is it up to you to determine that?

.. But, Borian in your OP you said.. "if you knew the person was going to use it for meth"

.. But, Borian in your OP you said.. "if you knew the person was going to use it for meth"

Lol, so true. Would you?

Yes, I did say it. Any point?

yes.. in some of your other posts you're speaking as if the giver doesn't know what the person would use it for, good or bad, which would be the case in a realistic situation.. but for your post you are saying it is known they would use it for meth.. and I just don't think that if you "knew" they were going to use it for drugs that there is any good reason to give them anything, other than food/water/a wake up call..

Completely. I get the same feeling about you. I don't light off on many people, but several have been instant friends just like we have always known each other.

I think it's a personality thing, or we possibly have met. Ever lived in VA, DE, MA, or TX?

Nope, grew up in Kentucky but now living in Indiana. My sister lived in Fredrick, MD for a few years before moving to Australia and my mom lived in Reston, VA.

lol I don't think we have ever met. It was just an odd feeling like I knew you or something. I think it may be a personality thing.

I have had this same reasoning with a friend of mine who has issues with my giving a dollar to those who ask for money.

It seems to me many people have some serious control issues even when it is only a dollar...

My friend will say "how do your know how they will spend it? If they get alcohol or drugs?"

First off it is only a dollar.

Secondly, I will often see someone asking for money before they see me and I ask for guidance, and often I am guided (by the Holy Spirit) to bless the individual. I make eye contact, and often say "blessings". And more often than not am blessed by those whom I have given to.

It's only a dollar, but to someone who is poor - it is often in the receiving, much more than that dollar.

OneLOVE

(don't forget the LOVE)