Do you give money to beggars?

An American girl girlyunderwear (I wrote about her a few days ago) asked this quistion in her blog. Personally, I never give money to them, I believe it is better to give some money to charity. There only was one exception. Once I was drinking coffee with my friend Kate from Australia and suddenly we sow a nearby ATM “spitting” some banknotes. Just without any apparent reason. Not enough to strike it rich but just enough to have a dinner for two. No one else notised what this magical box had just done so we were tempted to pick the money up. Or steal them? We both felt that our qualms would not let us sleep at night. On the other hand it only was a matter of minutes when somebody would come and grab them. So we decided to take them and give them to the first beggar we would meet. So we did. (There are a lot of beggers in Prague nowadays, mostly coming from the East Europe, thinking the rich tourists will have pity on them.)

How do you deal with homeless people?

a) ignore them
b) give them money always
c) give them money sometimes
d) give them money only if they do something for it
e) give them something other than money
f) tell them to fuck off and get a job
g) kill them. no one notices.

I usually give homeless people money, especially in the winter. Sometimes I give money to homeless people who don't ask. That's probably because I don't live where there are a lot of them, if I did I'd probably start to ignore them too.

fuck off = to leave or go away, used especially as a rude way of telling someone to go away = odprejsknout

Try and read the following discussion to her question. It is interesting what people not only from States think of this issue. Incidentally, do you give money to beggars?