I just say “sorry, I haven’t”. I think as long as you just try to acknowledge them in a good way, i.e. smiling, maintaining eye contact, being polite, so you still acknowledge them as the human being that they are.

Sure it’s bad to lie, but so is being insensitive with the truth, whether it’s “I wanna spend the money on myself” or “there are more effective ways to make a difference than giving money to you”

80 meters lol. I’ve lived in cities, where it’s always been less than 700 meters.

GiveWell is a charity that seeks to answer this exact question.

i see, thank you.

I think it’s just 3-4 in each direction, so if so something bad and you’re old, it would affect your grandkids, and if you’re young it would affect your grandparents

as rumor suggests

From Wikipedia:

Numerous testimonies of North Korean defectorsconfirm the practice of kin punishment (연좌제, yeonjwaje literally “association system”) in North Korea, under which three to eight generations of a political offender’s family can be summarily imprisoned or executed.