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Originally Posted by Loxley
is it right?...I think its an ethical conundrum...why do a small percentage of the poor go begging in farang districts and the rest of them just get on with life?
Are there gang masters who put these people out? I dont really wanna encourage some woman to be dragging her kids out on the street to postion them with empty cups outside BTS stairs but sometimes its heartbreaking
I give to Nuns, monks, blind and disabled people....what about you?
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First of all, I would like to say, "
Welcome back to our brainchild Forum area, the Development Forum...Mother Fucka!" 
Second, I would like to say that, like I said before, the "official" State Reports from the USA state that most beggars are controlled by the Mafioso. You heard that right! They are
paraded by them. Read the reports closely.
However, I would like to say that I was with a federal worker walking down the Sukhumvit area (no names nor agencies nor reason for being with this federal worker) who gave a beggar some money. I told him I thought all of these people were
under the influence and controlled by the Mafia! He told me that he thought he'd give anyways because he figured the guy was poorer than him anyhow.
Third, I think the best way to give to a beggar is not to give, but to find some unfortunate who is walking along minding his own business, collecting trash or getting thrown out of a railway station by a rude security officer (I saw this today at Hua Lampong...the guy had really skinny arms and holes in the back of his dirty black pants, and his hair was all shaggy black...I thought he was old until I saw his face and the chap looked quite young). I nearly (I regret not) turned back and was going to give him a note or two. One time I did this with a guy in Lumpini Park who was minding his own business rummaging through trash. I was with an attractive Thai lady, but I didn't do it for her, I just did it for him...I gave him a baht note, said nothing and continued walking along my way.
I don't know. That's my theory. I don't have much sympathy for the traditional tin in the hand beggar nor the long-haired dreadlocked musician on the street corner back home. I mean, after all, the instrument player could at least get a job at a fast food joint or something.