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Rhymes With "Brass Seagull"'s avatar

Other common objections:

5. "You're not helping them, you're enabling them!"

6. Any variant of the "don't feed the bears!" or "don't feed the animals!" meme about creating "dependency" on "handouts"

7. "You're treating them like zoo animals rather than actually helping them!" (Often said almost in the same breath as #6, without a hint of irony)

8. Any variant of "undeserving poor".

The best response to all of these:

At best, you are making the perfect the enemy of the good. You can't see the irony in your own beliefs, it seems. Also, define "undeserving". Go on, and spell out exactly what you are too craven to state openly. Then check your privilege, look in the mirror, and say, "There but for fortune, may go you, or I".

(Mic drop)

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Ryan DC's avatar

Amen, I try to keep some singles on me for just this purpose. It’s not much, but it’s better than nothing.

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