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I was having this discussion with some folks on another board and thought I'd pose the question here to you guys, I thought it was interesting.

Do you guys remember that website belonging to that girl who put herself into debt real deep by maxing out her credit cards buying purses and shoes and a bunch of other designer garbage? The one who used the website to basically beg for money so she could pay off her debts?

Now, I thought that was pretty shitty 'cos the girl was just fiscally irresponsible from the get-go and wanted strangers to bail her out. I didn't really approve of that and I don't imagine you guys would either. (Or would you? Say so!)

But what if you had someone who was asking for say, a dollar if you had an extra one laying around, who was working toward a very specific goal, like say, starting a business? Do you consider that panhandling of the nasty kind also, or do you look at that as some guy/gal asking a few million new friends to hook him/her up with a buck?

I'm not sure what to think on this myself, it'd make me feel guilty, personally. What're your thoughts on this?

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