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Would you give money to beggars?

( bbs.chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2014-09-18 08:02

markwu (Malaysia)

They're everywhere; sometime back, in Chicago, midnight, black lady, freezing weather, I emptied my coin purse; then in San Francisco, white man, hand-out; I went to find a burger for him; over here in Shanghai, poor man sitting at a bench by the roadside, I went looking for some food for him, but he was gone. The problem however is this: we don't know how many are really in despair and how many are professional beggars.

Would you give money to beggars?

Jessica Alba gives some change to a homeless man as she gets into her car in Los Angeles on Dec 8, 2009.

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