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    How is them having mental health problems an argument for NOT giving them money?

It isn't. It's an argument for:

    don't for a minute think that being nice and volunteering and shit will keep some meth-addicted schizophrenic from deciding you're smiling at him because the voices told you he masturbates to Bette Midler and you want to steal his fillings.

The article is about "valid techniques to handle panhandling" based on the assumptions that panhandlers are rational human beings. My whole point is that the assumption is statistically invalid.

    Edit: I'm not implying that you're staring at them.

No, you're implying I'm a heartless dickhead who uses insanity as a reason to forego compassion. So thanks for that.