We should understand that what we pay is not money, but love. Our outstretched hand represents our concern and respect for them as human beings.
I hate the word charity. I don't want to desecrate our love, even a little. Love is sincere, voluntary and selfless. We are not here to ask for their return, nor to ask for their praise. We just hope that our friendly hands can soothe their hearts a little and tell them that the world is beautiful.
I don't deny that many people are liars, but who can be sure that he or she is a liar? How can you hold back on this? If every time your love encounters hesitation, it means that your love is not pure love. We should raise our eyes to identify liars, not retract our friendly hands.
Don't pity your hand, don't hesitate your heart. When we can, take the initiative to reach out, brothers and sisters, I believe that even if he (she) is a liar, your love will certainly be passed on to his (her) heart and to the hearts of more people around you.
Our view: proper charity, after all, is worthy of sympathy.
The first sentence: Not everyone wants to be a beggar. If it is not forced by life, it is forced by others, different or self-indulgence.
The defense is as follows:
1) In today's fierce social competition, it is obvious to all that losers (especially those who have no skills to make a living) will inevitably fall into the bottom of society and beg for a living. Can we turn a blind eye to these people who may starve to death?
2) We refuse to give alms because they may use our sympathy for profit. Should we destroy our compassion and compassionate nature because of this possibility? Mencius said: compassion is the purpose of benevolence, and Yasheng's statement is fallacious.
3) I don't deny that evil forces will control these poor compatriots and make them abandon their personality in exchange for money, but if we don't give alms, they will be "sanctioned" when they go back, ranging from black and blue, to limb mutilation and even death. Even to save temporary security, we should not turn a blind eye to the past. After all, the person behind the scenes is the source of evil.
4) I'm talking about giving alms to people who don't have the skills to make a living, not those who are healthy and strong. They are old, weak, naive, or sick. Don't they deserve sympathy?
5) "As long as everyone gives a little love, the world will become a beautiful tomorrow." This song is still ringing in my ears. We all do our part, so are there so many beggars in the street? Conclusion: To sum up, we think we should give alms appropriately, after all, some of them are worthy of sympathy.
Beggars deserve sympathy and proper charity.
Here, I'd like to make a statement first: By beggars, I mean those who are forced by life or livelihood and have no skills to make a living and have to beg. Most of these people are old people, and we should give them alms. As for all kinds of people who use people's conscience and sympathy to cheat money, I call them liars. Pretending to be a beggar is just a way for them to cheat money. It's not your fault that you were cheated, but if you insist on blaming beggars, isn't it a crime? In fact, beggars are also victims to some extent.
"Everyone has compassion", and I also believe that even the square players who advocate not giving alms to beggars have a kind heart. So why are there differences on this topic? In my opinion, a very important reason is that our poor beggars, as victims, are troubled by the swindlers who cheat in the name of begging mentioned above! I said that everyone's heart must be bright now. It can be said: get rid of the "burden" of liars, I believe most people will still tend to be anti-Party!
You can look at the following two scenarios:
It can be seen that who wants to be a beggar if they are not really desperate? !
Some people may say: poor people must have something hateful. So can this sentence be reversed: hateful people must have self-pity In fact, what is hateful about beggars? They haunt the streets all day, live a wandering life, eat the last meal without the next meal, but also have to humble themselves to people, to apply a popular saying: I am a beggar, am I easy?
People's worries are my worries, and people's happiness is my joy. I am happy to solve their worries and have friends all over the world.
If you are poor, you will be immune, and if you are rich, you will help the world.
And we help a little beggar at the same time, without the premise of "reaching the top" at all. Maybe a beggar can live for many days if he eats less snacks and spends less time in Internet cafes. Giving alms to beggars is nothing more than lifting a finger. When a beggar comes to you, why should he miss this opportunity to do good? And even if you have no money, you don't always have to be stingy with a kind smile, do you? I have repeatedly stressed that beggars should be given sympathy and appropriate charity. In fact, isn't sympathy priceless charity?
Friends, please lend your helping hand!
Proper charity, after all, is worthy of sympathy.
Maybe many people in this world despise beggars, and I hate beggars, but when I see some beggars, I still can't help giving them money. I don't think it is necessarily a lie.
Do you feel sorry for the elderly and children in welfare homes? Everyone will give them help and care, right? What about beggars sleeping on the street? How many people care about them? It is precisely because there are too many liars that they are even more ignored. I saw a beggar in the street yesterday. He didn't beg, he was naked and carrying a sack. He picked up something in the trash can and got the money. He doesn't want what he wants. The cake shop owner gave him some bread, and he squatted far away from the shop and ate it. He walks around, afraid to get close to people, far from people and shops. He is a little strong. There may be many people who say that they will not go to work when they are in good health, but in this society, it is difficult for college graduates to find jobs, let alone beggars. Even if they work hard, will their employers believe a beggar? So I will always give money to beggars, not much. If you give some small change, it will never be a problem. Don't give it without change. In this world, there are always people who need help. If you help others today, others will help you tomorrow.
Appropriate charity, after all, some are worthy of sympathy!
To discuss whether beggars (professional and non-professional) in society should give alms, we must first understand what beggars are, just like discussing whether apples should be eaten. If you don't know what an apple is, how can you talk about eating or not?
1) Causes of beggars:
Getting the necessary food and clothing and money is the behavioral goal advocated by the cultural value system of civilized society, but in the unequal class society, the broad masses of the people at the bottom lack the means to achieve these goals. When they can't achieve the goal of obtaining the necessary means of subsistence only by means allowed by society, they must "create" new means, because survival is always the first. In order to survive this goal, they must "create" new means. Beggars' livelihood is a means created by the bottom poor. Although this method is rejected by social etiquette and customs and not accepted by the existing cultural value system of society, it is still created, studied and used by future generations. This is the need of survival.
This new means is to convey the beggar's own weak image, suffering experience and tragic experience to the world in various ways, so as to mobilize people's sympathy and get people's charity. The so-called "begging by road", "begging by line", "begging by bitterness" and "begging by deceit" come to mind, and the so-called "calling the street", "wailing", "complaining", "off-axis", "making a list", "breaking one's head", "swallowing a knife", "snatching a snake" and "pretending"
2) The status of beggars:
To describe the complexity of people in society, there is a so-called "three religions and nine streams".
Among them, there are first-class witches (wizards who recite spells to attract gods to exorcise ghosts in the south), second-rate prostitutes (prostitutes in the Ming Dynasty), third-rate gods (witches possessed by immortals who treat diseases in the form of dancing), fourth-rate bangzi (watchman), fifth-rate hairdressers (barbers who carry burdens everywhere), sixth-rate actors (trumpeters) and seventh-rate actors (various actors).
It can be seen that public opinion and public psychology regard beggars as the last stream, treat beggars as a great insult, and regard beggars as negative teaching materials to warn and advise future generations. This is the mentality of ordinary people, especially the gentry class. Yuan Cai, a scholar in the Song Dynasty, expressed this cultural mentality in his article Children Should Learn Confucianism. The article said: "Scholar-officials' children have no worldly wealth to keep, and their impermanence can be relied on. However, they should look up to things, just like Confucianism. Its talent and quality are beautiful, and it can be learned from scholars. The world can be valuable, and it can be taught next time, so that it can be taught and served. He can't learn from scholars, but he can work for Zagreb and serve Jane. Next time you can learn to read and be a childhood teacher. You can't be a Confucian, but you can be a wizard, a doctor, a monk, a Taoist, a farm and a technician. Anyone who can preserve one's health without humiliating his predecessors can do it. As for wandering in the background, as for being a beggar and stealing, this is the most humiliating. " In the eyes of well-dressed people, being a beggar is just like being a thief, which is a big scandal that humiliates our ancestors and must not be done.
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We can sum up the formation of a beggar with the following formula: ordinary people-beggars-professionalism.
First of all, we must change from ordinary people to beggars, but this change is very painful and tortuous. Because no one is born inferior, let alone a beggar! In order to survive and become a beggar, we must risk humiliating our ancestors and endure the contempt and contempt of everyone, which in itself is enough to arouse anyone's sympathy!
Since you have become a beggar, you must go to a career, which will inevitably lead to behaviors such as "thoroughfare", "thoroughfare", "begging" and "cheating", just as there is bound to be a rush of 4 and a rush of 3, which is natural. Because of this, beggars are miserable. On the one hand, they are despised as the bottom of society, on the other hand, they have to live a better life through various means to get rid of this class, and it is this resistance that causes people's contempt. If beggars can't successfully convey their weak image, suffering experience and tragic experience to the world, so as to mobilize people's sympathy and get people's charity, how can they survive?
Since we respect the survival right of the weak and sympathize with their situation, please abandon preconceived prejudices and give alms to beggars!
Appropriate charity, after all, some are worthy of sympathy!
No matter what era (from ancient times to the present) and what country (from poor and backward third world countries to developed countries), beggars, as a special existence, can never be allowed. Siraruddin, mayor of Xijiang City, West Sulawesi, Indonesia, said on the 4th that according to the new regulations passed by the city council, giving money to beggars will be punished with imprisonment of up to three months or a fine of up to/kloc-0.5 million rupiah.
According to Agence France-Presse, Sirrudin said that the Xijiang City Council passed a new law last month prohibiting giving money to beggars or street children, and residents who violate this rule due to conscience may face three months' imprisonment. He stressed that the new law aims to reduce the growing number of beggars in Xijiang.
Sirrudin said, "This is an important decision to eliminate street beggars", adding that beggars or street children will be sentenced to up to three years' imprisonment or a fine of not more than five million rupiah.
Silarudin said that the supporting measures of this ban are employment plans to train beggars.
He pointed out that the number of beggars and street children in Xijiang has climbed from 870 in 2006 to 2,600 this year.
Or lazy, want to get something for nothing, this kind of person should not give.
B.begging is a profession. In some places, there is a saying that "go out to kneel on the street and go home to sleep in the villa".
C. the old, the weak and the sick should be the problem of the government's social welfare construction.
D, this is the most hateful. Some people form gangs for their own interests, forcing them to beg, and even disabling them. Giving alms to these beggars will encourage their arrogance.
This young pregnant woman is only 19 years old and has been begging on the streets of Shenzhen for more than three years with a big belly. Every time she would cry to pedestrians about her "unfortunate experience". Photo courtesy of Shenzhen Evening News
A pregnant woman who begged on the streets of Shenzhen for three years and claimed that her husband was involved in a car accident was photographed many times by reporters. On the evening of September 5, 2006, she was taken back to the police station for investigation on suspicion of fraud. The police found three bank deposit receipts from the pregnant woman's backpack. In just 9 days, "pregnant women" deposited 4250 yuan into the same account.
When more and more professional beggars take to the streets, when begging scams are ruthlessly exposed, people walking in various cities gradually begin to learn to respond with vigilance and indifference. We don't know the story behind these "professional beggars" Maybe they also have many inevitable difficulties. However, in the absence of the basis for punishing similar begging behaviors in the current laws and regulations, how should we judge their behavior of using people's sympathy to obtain money?
Don't extend our friendly hand to beggars.
We should understand that what we pay is not money, but love. Our outstretched hand represents our concern and respect for them as human beings.
I hate the word charity. I don't want to desecrate our love, even a little. Love is sincere, voluntary and selfless. We are not here to ask for their return, nor to ask for their praise. We just hope that our friendly hands can soothe their hearts a little and tell them that the world is beautiful.
I don't deny that many people are liars, but who can be sure that he or she is a liar? How can you hold back on this? If every time your love encounters hesitation, it means that your love is not pure love. We should raise our eyes to identify liars, not retract our friendly hands.
Don't pity your hand, don't hesitate your heart. When we can, take the initiative to reach out, brothers and sisters, I believe that even if he (she) is a liar, your love will certainly be passed on to his (her) heart and to the hearts of more people around you.
With the polarization between the rich and the poor and the influx of migrants into cities, the employment crisis is becoming more and more serious. Some people can survive in the competition, and some people will fall down in the competition. There are also some natural or acquired disasters, many of which cannot be solved by their own conditions. It is natural to have beggars. Although I personally disagree with begging, no one can deny the rationality of begging.
For these socially disadvantaged groups, I believe that basically everyone's opinions are to help if they can.
Let's talk about fake beggars. I believe you can say all kinds of things without my example. This kind of person is disgusting. Beggars earn more than white-collar workers, which may be one reason why people hate beggars. Whether there are such people or not, if possible, I hope you can take the time to get to know beggars in depth and see their income and life. The truth will only be known if you investigate it yourself. I spent an afternoon communicating with them. I also went to the place where they live. I don't have enough to eat every day and live in a shed made of leather. It's not that no one has been to the help center, but someone has escaped. Although it is one-sided, it makes me believe that most beggars are helpless.
And these beggars who take advantage of everyone's sympathy did not appear today, yesterday, or these decades. They may have appeared thousands of years ago. Some people say that never giving alms is to eliminate the beggar's wind. How can we eliminate it? Didn't the ancients think of this? But have these fake beggars disappeared? Don't!
Of course, we can say no to begging and begging, but when we are not sure.
Rejecting all beggars because there are fake beggars is like choking on food.
Maybe when we refuse fake beggars, we also refuse the weak who need help. We reject our inner goodness.
When everyone stops giving alms, will someone make a wish under the idol: to be a stray dog in the next life, not a human being?
Marx said: Being is reasonable! The reasons for the existence of beggars are explained as follows:
Poverty is a haze that has shrouded human society for a long time, and human society has encountered it and been troubled by it since its birth. Poverty is an important economic inducement that causes many social problems, and it is also the initial source of beggar phenomenon. In a sense, it is poverty that makes beggars come into being and continue for a long time in the development of civilized society.
According to the understanding of sociology, poverty is a living environment. In this environment, they have low income, insufficient employment, poor housing, great mental pressure and great external pressure, so they have no power in society and it is difficult to get close to a respected position. The poor always have a sense of insecurity and emotional instability. " ((America) Everett Logis, et al. Changes in Rural Society)
In the final analysis, poverty is underdevelopment, that is, people's right to development as a society has not been realized or not.
According to the hierarchy theory of human needs, every member of society has the need to enjoy bottom-up information and develop survival information. People's development must first meet the needs of basic means of subsistence, and then they can serve the society through the production of material means and other services, and in this process, they experience socialization and re-socialization, so that their physical strength and intelligence can be developed and their potential can be improved and mobilized. Therefore, people can obtain development materials, including material conditions to improve the quality of life, education and training expenses, cultural entertainment, sports and other needs. People's needs and rights cannot be realized or not fully realized, which is poverty in the sociological sense.
If poverty is underdevelopment, then in the wild ancient times, human society was generally in poverty. At that time, the social productive forces were extremely low, the social division of labor was extremely underdeveloped, the means of subsistence and production were extremely scarce, and the food and housing necessary for people's lives were not guaranteed. However, in this case, beggars did not emerge in large numbers as we thought. Why? In my opinion, this article is that people are generally poor, there is no distinction between rich and poor, and there is no distinction between rich and poor. Naturally, there would be no extremely humble beggars. Secondly, due to the limitation of data, it is difficult for us to know the specific situation of people's lives at that time. It can be said that under the social conditions at that time, people were extremely poor and society was extremely poor, so it was useless to beg others. Speaking of begging, everyone wants to beg, and everyone wants to beg from nature. Everyone is a beggar in this respect. However, under the condition of absolute poverty, there is a difference between relative wealth and poverty. Without a sound social security mechanism, poor undeclared people can only save themselves by begging from others and society. Under the social conditions at that time, everyone could become a beggar or a almsgiver. People have completed the function of mutual assistance in the exchange of begging and mutual gifts, thus completing their personal life course under extremely difficult living conditions.
According to historical records, in the long feudal society of China, the abject poverty of the broad masses of working people made some of them beg, and poverty has always been the primary reason for beggars. There are countless records about "famine", "great famine", "great famine" and "extraordinary famine" in past dynasties. With famine, there are hungry people and beggars everywhere.
In the feudal era of China, poverty was a regular and structural social problem. The reason is that low productivity and long-term stagnation, lack of means of production, oppression by the ruling class, periodic social unrest and frequent natural disasters all play a role in different degrees, and their interaction together constitutes the fundamental reason why farmers live in a state of hunger and cold for a long time. Li Kui, a famous politician and reformer in the Warring States Period, once calculated an account for the peasants. According to Li Kui's estimation, a farmer who has to feed five people can produce 150 stone grain every year by farming 100 mu, pay 10% tax, and leave 135 stone. A family of five eats 90 stones a year, leaving 45 stones. Forty-five stone grain is converted into about 1350 yuan. If the money is used for spring and autumn sacrificial activities and clothing, there is still a gap in 450 yuan. If it meets the expenses of birth, illness, death and funeral, as well as the expenses paid to the state, the gap will be even greater. A family of five, with 100 acres of land, is also considered a medium-sized farmer. They are not hungry and cold in good years, but they are naturally worse in bad years. The situation of inferior farmers is even worse. Usually they have no choice but to wander and beg for help. Therefore, it is not surprising that in the long feudal era, farmers were often on the verge of bankruptcy and became refugees in large numbers, and then became vagrants and beggars.
When the wheel of history came to the industrial society, things seemed to have changed. Due to the expansion of social division of labor, the all-round development of socialized mass production and the rapid development of science and technology, the social productivity of human beings has been unprecedentedly improved and the material wealth of society has been greatly enriched. Compared with the feudal agricultural society, people's living standards and quality of life have been greatly improved, and the poverty problem has been alleviated accordingly. However, it has not disappeared, and relative poverty is still a common social problem. The lack of human right to development and the serious imbalance between the right to subsistence and the right to development are still very serious. The gap between social members in the quality of production has not narrowed but widened, and the people's higher development rights such as education, health, social interaction and political participation are still seriously inadequate.
The unfair distribution of means of subsistence and the serious imbalance of development opportunities are the main manifestations of today's poverty problem. Because of this, beggars still exist in today's society, and the number is considerable. The reason is that poverty bears the brunt. Different from the past, today's poverty is mostly manifested in relative poverty and spiritual poverty, so today's beggars have a corresponding era.
Therefore, the poverty of beggars does not mean that they are penniless, but that most people are relatively poor. Moreover, Zheng Fang can't always use a single phenomenon to summarize the overall situation of beggars (besides, Zheng Fang has never refuted our view that liars should not be regarded as beggars). Just like a box of apples has 1 rotten apples, you can't say that the whole box is rotten apples!
I recently read a short story about Russian writer and poet Turgenev. On a snowy night, the poet was on his way home in a hurry when a beggar appeared in front of the poet and extended his begging hand. The poet stopped, searched all his pockets, reached out helplessly, took the beggar's hand and said, "I'm very sorry, I forgot to bring money today." The beggar's expression froze at once, only his eyes were red with heat. The beggar said to the poet in a trembling voice, "Sir, that's enough. More satisfied than giving me money. " The poet and the beggar held hands tightly and melted the cold snow.
Walk peacefully past beggars.
Bi Shumin
I no longer envy those who give generously, and I no longer look at those who walk away.
One of the reasons why I like Zhang Ailing is that she says she doesn't like beggars. Ordinary people dare not say that they hate beggars, especially women, which is unkind.
Beggars are a phenomenon, which externalizes poverty and weakness and reflects them feebly. It expresses people's grief and help naked, makes others feel the desire to help, and gives joy after getting sympathy.
Begging has become a new topic. Beggars in famous works are often wise and upright, and ordinary people also have many stories about beggars. After listening to a woman's story, she finally decided to marry her husband, because when he saw a beggar, he always took money wholeheartedly. Once, I actually took out all the money to invite a girl to dinner, so that two people could only walk by the river hungry (the girl's money was only enough for their way home). The girl thought this man was trustworthy and married him soon. The disheveled beggar unconsciously became a matchmaker. When I admired the girl's cleverness, her face suddenly changed, saying that she found her husband narrow and hypocritical shortly after marriage and soon parted ways. So the beggar unconsciously became a sinner.
At a loss, I don't know how to treat tumors on the eyebrows and eyes in this big city. One day, I went to the subway with friends from overseas religious circles. The dirty old beggar, wrapped in dirty rags and half kneeling and half prostrating, blocked the stairs, and the scattered small coins glowed faintly in the worn straw hat. Half a leg was stabbed under the felt like a barrel, and there was a brown carrion where there were feet. The scene is tragic and the smell is bad, so people have to leave some money far away and fly away.
I took a few steps back and opened the distance with my friends. According to her compassion and fraternity, no matter how much she donates, it is her heart and privacy. I'd better get out of the way with respect
She walked over with dignity, leaned down and said to the disabled old man, please make way, don't block the passage, can't you see that people are bypassing you? How inconvenient it is for everyone. The old man raised half his face from the ground without answering her. He went his own way, invited his wife and gave some small money. ...
My friend passed by quietly and didn't put down a penny. When I got into the subway, I found the staff in the station. She said there was a beggar in the passage, which hindered the traffic. Please urge him to go away.
I looked at all this silently and felt that it was understandable not to give money. For example, it happens that I am in a bad mood and have no spare capacity to care about others, but is it too strict to ask the police to drive away the old beggar? I couldn't help making an excuse for her, saying that I saw some beggars cheating on food and drinking in the newspaper, begging in the street during the day and going to the restaurant in suits and ties after work. Some simply take this as their business, and after a few years, they actually built houses in the countryside and became the richest man in the area. Want you to see at a glance that beggars are such passers-by?
My friend smiled and said that I don't have this magical power. I have also read the examples you mentioned in the newspaper. As for the old man, we can't just doubt him without evidence. I wonder, since you don't think he is a bad person, why don't you give alms?
My friend said, but I can't tell if he is really poor and sick, and it is difficult to support himself.
I said, it's hard. Should everyone hire a private detective to investigate the income of beggars one by one before paying for charity?
Friends are positive, which is the dilemma of modern society. In farming society, people in ten miles and eight townships know who is poor and who is really helpless. Entering the information society, people flow a lot. We know when Mars will hit hard, but ordinary people can't grasp the real background of beggars.
I said, what should I do? Some beggars stand in your way and show their disability and fear, which makes you have to throw away your money. Several people travel together. Passing by is stingy and heartless, and the pressure is quite great.
My friend said that I never give alms on the roadside. That's not kindness, it's stupidity. Of course, I dare not say that everyone along the road should not rescue, but rescue should also have a modern consciousness. You give a little money, he kowtows, he sells his dignity for money, and you get cheap desire satisfaction. Your little money doesn't deserve such a return. It is easy for him to touch his head because he no longer values himself. It is a potential threat and persecution to squeeze people's senses by expressing physical diseases. Using ugliness to win money has been called "evil begging" since ancient times and is despised by people. If your hard-earned money encourages bad habits, isn't it against your good wishes?
I nodded and asked, then how to give?
A friend said that there should be a formal charity to take charge of these affairs. It must accept supervision from all sides and have a clear understanding of the past and future, so as to make good steel on the cutting edge and save the difficulty of ordinary people's screening.
From then on, I can walk beside beggars calmly. I no longer envy those who give generously, and I no longer look at those who walk away. Of course, we also actively donate money to formal institutions and expect them to be clean.