Why do you walk past homeless people or beggars?

People do turn to substances or substance abuse becomes worse when they end up on the street. But I'm not sure it's a question of begrudging them, rather that you are potentially enabling them by giving them money. You've already mentioned the problem, the cold. Alcoholics have short life spans on the street, they either sober up and start to sort themselves out or they get wasted and freeze to death. Alcohol/substance abuse problems account for around 1/3 of homeless deaths.


http://www.crisis.org.uk/data/files/publications/Homelessness%20-%20a%20silent%20killer.pdf

Walking through town, obviously very few people give money to EVERY beggar or homeless person or charity collector that they see.
but if you walk past or ignore a homeless man sitting on the ground with a cup for money, and you DO have money with you, what is your reason for not donating?

I always feel terrible for walking past someone like this and sometimes I have very bad excuses such as "my wallet is in my bag, I'd have to rummage for it and it would take too long\not worth the effort."

Also some people say that some "beggars" are pretending and arent actually homeless (?)
I know I'm not alone in this, but does it make us bad people ?

i don't think it makes us bad people at all, i mean, sure there are some people that have been made homeless for no reason at all, but usually the majority of people on the streets are there through bad life choices of their own, why should i give them money that i have worked hard for just for them to spend on drugs/alcohol. you'd be naive to think the homeless only spend the money they receive on food/drink that they actually need.

Walking through town, obviously very few people give money to EVERY beggar or homeless person or charity collector that they see.
but if you walk past or ignore a homeless man sitting on the ground with a cup for money, and you DO have money with you, what is your reason for not donating?

I always feel terrible for walking past someone like this and sometimes I have very bad excuses such as "my wallet is in my bag, I'd have to rummage for it and it would take too long\not worth the effort."

Also some people say that some "beggars" are pretending and arent actually homeless (?)
I know I'm not alone in this, but does it make us bad people ?

tbh I don't give a s*it. Homeless people are not my responsibility, and I don't owe them anything, also I don't work a 7 hour shift on my feet all day to give my money to a stranger on the street. I have my own stuff going on and it kinda pisses me off when hard-working people are made to feel guilty about not giving money...