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by SDGT 4565 days ago
If a homeless individual can approach me in an honest, respectful manner, I'd be more inclined to help.

This has not yet been the case. I prefer to reward civility with civility.

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I bet it has but you had no idea they were homeless.

Crazy antisocial people often become homeless and are the visible side of it, but the vast majority of homeless people are not antisocial or crazy.

The Golden Rule? My goodness, Citizen, how positively regressionist of you!
How, exactly, would you want them to approach you?
Without their genitalia exposed would be a start and preferably without spitting.
No, that was some members of the Oxford Union on an international fact-finding mission.