Beggars at traffic signals, beggars at religious places, beggars on the street, beggars who come to your house, beggars on trains, beggars near restaurants all of them pull at your heart strings, make you feel guilty of being better off than them, make you give some money to them so that you can overcome the guilt.
What we have to keep in mind the next time we reach our wallet to give money to the beggars is that begging is illegal. There are a lot of criminals using begging as an easy way to make money. In fact begging is a big business. There are kids who are forced into begging, there are people who are mutilated so that they can beg. There are drugs bought from the money received from begging.
If you want to give something to somebody who begs, let it be not money but something in kind like food or clothes. Food is the safest option.
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