just wondering

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    Who are you to decide what they’re allowed to buy? You’d rather have someone go hungry on the off chance they might buy something you don’t agree with?

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      It’s ultimately an assessment done in a case by case basis. Another example: will you give money to a relative who will use it for gambling? Helping someone turn around their life and enabling their habits are different things.

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        If my relative wants to gamble with the 2 Currency that I’ve given them, okay then.

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        Giving another person money usually implies the transfer of ownership of that money to that other person, unless otherwise specified.

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            Sure. And depending on the circumstances the conditions might not make you look like a very nice person. Which you are of course free to ignore.

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          That’s the point of the original comment and you are bullshitting “how dare you decide what they buy!”. They own the money and they decide that they won’t spend money to improve a homeless person life if it won’t improve it.

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            The point is to help this person temporarily alleviate a problem they have, whatever that problem may be. If you don’t want to do this, fine, but if you’re only willing to give money if they use that money in ways that you deem wholesome, that’s patronising.

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              help this person temporarily alleviate a problem they have

              And you mean drinking fucking alcohol lmao. Yeah it’s gonna made them feel better for a minute, sure, lol. And fuck them up even worse after that. It’s like giving drugs to drug addicts, wtf.

              in ways that you deem wholesome, that’s patronising.

              No onre said “wholesome”. If so, trying to help honeless people is “patronozing” then generally. Goverment is “partonizing”. Organizations that want to help them are “patronizing”.

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                The problem is that you are convinced they’re going to buy drugs. You do not know that person, it is not your place to decide that.

                No, I do not agree that simply offering help is patronising.