Is Giving A Homeless Person $ For Drugs STO?

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*Edited for further clarity*

I'm going to chime in here because where I live is currently going through an "Opioid Epidemic" as it is being called by the province, being especially fueled by the pandemic.

I have numerous family and friends who are community support workers and actively engaging this situation on the 'front lines'.
We have a very challenging homelessness and addict problem that is very much 'taking over' the downtown core. Very common to see people openly using needles on the sidewalks.
From my homeless friends I have learned that things on the street have only become more vicious and difficult, more competition and more violence.
There is a major gang presence in our city, it is certainly part of what fuels this situation. Many individuals turn to thievery to survive or in order to pay their debts to gangs.
This is a very under discussed element to this topic.

To the notion that some food and warmth is enough to help most people on their way, I don't think it is really all that simple a lot of times.

Over a year ago there was a long period of time where there was a large tent encampment set up by homeless people to protest the lack of affordable housing.
Over time the gangs came in, drugs started to circulate more, it was learned there was an underaged girl being prostituted around. Eventually there was a fire or two.

The city set up a temporary modular housing in order to try and transition people off the street. Numerous people flat out rejected the offer, it wasn't what they wanted.
I have a couple friends who ended up working in those housings, and essentially, the lifestyle continued the exact same just inside rather than outside. I saw pictures of rooms full of stolen bikes, for example.

A lot of homeless people around here will actually refute you if you try to give them food and then demand money. If you give food to one and then not another, often arguments will ensue.
If you give them a small amount of money but they want more, they may not leave you alone. Mental health challenges are a huge part of many individuals' homelessness.

So why do I highlight all this?

To show that it is a little silly to place so much weight on the attempt of an individual to be generous in the face of a problem that can only be addressed on a large systematic scale.
(Also, to add, to illustrate the complexity of this issue, especially in my hometown.)

If we're talking about individual polarization, this notion that some action needs to be "perfectly correct" or in some way "100% selfless" I think is completely missing the mark.

Polarization is about how one uses catalyst.

46.9 ▶ Questioner: Certainly.

Ra: The entity polarizing positively perceives the anger. This entity, if using this catalyst mentally, blesses and loves this anger in itself. It then intensifies this anger consciously in mind alone until the folly of this red-ray energy is perceived not as folly in itself but as energy subject to spiritual entropy due to the randomness of energy being used.

Positive orientation then provides the will and faith to continue this mentally intense experience of letting the anger be understood, accepted, and integrated with the mind/body/spirit complex. The other-self which is the object of anger is thus transformed into an object of acceptance, understanding, and accommodation, all being reintegrated using the great energy which anger began.

The negatively oriented mind/body/spirit complex will use this anger in a similarly conscious fashion, refusing to accept the undirected or random energy of anger and instead, through will and faith, funneling this energy into a practical means of venting the negative aspect of this emotion so as to obtain control over other-self, or otherwise control the situation causing anger.

Control is the key to negatively polarized use of catalyst. Acceptance is the key to positively polarized use of catalyst. Between these polarities lies the potential for this random and undirected energy creating a bodily complex analog of what you call the cancerous growth of tissue.

You only polarize when you use catalyst. EVERYTHING is catalyst.

93.11 ▶ Questioner: I would like, if possible, an example of the activity we call Catalyst of the Mind in a particular individual undergoing this process. Could Ra give an example of that?

Ra: I am Ra. All that assaults your senses is catalyst. We, in speaking to this support group through this instrument, offer catalyst. The configurations of each in the group of body offer catalyst through comfort/discomfort. In fact all that is unprocessed that has come before the notice of a mind/body/spirit complex is catalyst.

Ergo, absolutely every experience no matter how minute can be used towards positive polarization.

Furthermore, the service that each offers is totally unique, so getting in to a "dick measuring contest" (to use scientific nomenclature *note the sarcasm*) of "real" generosity vs "ego" generosity seems to me to completely miss this point as it inevitably leads to endless projection.

Speaking to the intention of your question, the best way for each seeker in third density to be of service to others is unique to that mind/body/spirit complex. This means that the mind/body/spirit complex must then seek within itself the intelligence of its own discernment as to the way it may best serve other-selves. This will be different for each. There is no best. There is no generalization. Nothing is known.

So if you are in alignment with yourself, feel you are acting in your highest self and are offering a service you feel genuine about, then yes, I believe you are polarizing in that moment. Significantly so? That I'm not sure of.
I don't think it has anything to do with the way anybody else interprets your actions. That is THEIR catalyst to use positively or negatively.

The caveat is that nobody is polarizing in one direction at all times. We are in constant fluctuation so yes, what goes up may come down at some point. I don't think the idea is to be perfectly polarizing positively all the time but to net try and gain more than you lose. So, would giving someone money for drugs polarize you positively? Maybe slightly, but it could also lead to a loss of polarity. The tricky factor is that you only have the choice of whether or not to give the money, after that you have no control over what the person will do with it. Maybe they actually end up using the money for something beneficial to their bodies/minds, they may not. Maybe nobody gives them any money so they get desperate and decide to break in to a house. You don't really know.

Net sum, I think there isn't a lot of polarity to be gained or lost in this situation as there are so many complicating factors. Ultimately, I don't think it is an effective way to go about polarization one way or the other.
You are probably better off volunteering at a soup kitchen or something along those lines.

Truth is, I am not sure exactly who or what gets to define "service" when it comes to polarization, I think everybody is merely speculating on that.

There was actually a study done here in BC which gave out money for free to homeless people (mind you it was 'recently' homeless people, not those already entrenched) and is an ongoing project.

https://forsocialchange.org/new-leaf-project-overview

I think ultimately though there needs to be much more support available and quite simply the scale of the measure doesn't match the need. I think individual effort can best be put towards aiding a collective effort.

So yeah, just my two-bits there.