At 4/25/15 02:12 AM, mysticvortex13 wrote:
yknow that sign that says "will work for food"? nobody does that in real life..
Some people do. Just because many don't doesn't mean no one does. Still, I don't take them up on their offers. In theory, a true hobo does some kind of beneficial thing if you help him. There may not be very many actual hobos. Just holding such a sign doesn't make one a hobo.
so it's the frequency at which they ask you that determines whether they're a bum. okay...
No, unless you mean a frequency of zero. Do they bug people for money ever and do they offer no services? Then they're a bum. Do they sit there quietly with a jar or a sign but they don't go up to people but people can give them money if they want? Homeless, layabout, or hobo perhaps, but no indication they're a bum.
Poor folks don't deserve that kind of abuse from bums. Rich folks just pay security or whoever to escort bums off premises.
nobody deserves anything. you dont deserve to not have that happen to you if you're poor either.
That's where you're wrong. You seem to have this strange idea no one deserves anything and that's a wrong idea. Mind your own business and let others do the same. Do whatever you want as long as you do no harm. Etc... But in this case they are harassing people and thus doing harm. To say anyone deserves that (and saying they don't not deserve that is the same as saying they deserve it) is the same as to say anyone deserves to get robbed, mugged, stabbed, murdered, etc... No, there are some things people don't deserve at all although they might happen. But they certainly didn't deserve them to happen.
my mother actually turned into a regular customer of this woman who was hawking her homemade tamales.
she didnt offer to work in the formal sense.. nor was she homeless.. she just made money on the side by selling traditional mexican dishes to neighbors.
That's not a bum though. She offers a service. Not a bum. Bums don't offer services.
the people who really are homeless tend to look for cans on roadsides and in trash bins so they can take them to the scrap metal dealers and get them recycled into new aluminum products for a living.
Yes and I actually don't have a problem with them. In fact I've tried to strike up conversations with one genuinely homeless fellow in particular who I've seen around a lot but he appears to just mind his own business and prefers to avoid all human interaction entirely. So I leave him be.
A man that minds his own business is a man I can respect. On the other hand I don't respect bums.