Our society keep changing and adopting some things in different ways from what it's before now, I will emphatically state my experience as what begging was perceived in the past decade but today different narrative, when people beg either on street or any other means those who beg where seen as one who are in lack and needs help, either as disability or one issue that may be known to them but today some ethnic has make it a hobby while some youth sees it as quick measure to get their daily bread all depends on the environment one is residing, beginning now is job, profesion their tune and manner they present themselves make you feel it's a profession, I will agree with been a profession to a length because a healthy youth without being disabled is meant to work but to abandoned such pursuit and focus in begging make it a profession for such person, but that is not a yardstick to render help to those who need it , it just a matter of people see opportunity on things of such nature and trying to take advantage of it, naturally it a way of helping the needy not to be perceived as profession.
The idea behind begging has been messed up by the lazy people who have no ailments or health challenges of any kind who go into begging as a means of survival perhaps a profession. This rise in healthy beggers have made it difficult to identify real beggers because everyone now sees all beggars as the same.
Begging and receiving is not bad when it is genuine, people still help regardless. But in some societies where these fake beggars are greater in numbers, it hinders the real beggars from receiving the level of attention they could have been receiving if they were all genuine beggars. I have decided to minimise how often I give to beggars because most times you notice someone who uses same patterns at different locations to extort money in the guise of a disabled when there's actually nothing wrong with him.
