Westender , To use your phrase, Westender, "Don't you get it?" The beach kids were begging plain and simple. They were developing the skills of the con. You do not own all the empathy for the children of Negril. Empathy without action to resolve is hollow. To encourage the different forms of begging truly hurts the children. To assume that some people "see these kids as a problem without further thought than that" is arrogant. The begging is a symptom. Don't feed the addiction. Treat the causes. And contrary to your view I don't know one person that "see these kids as a problem without further thought than that" Not one.