Caring, personable, friendly, real, drama-free, responsible. I love helping others unconditionally. If I help someone and they have a bad motive, that is between them and God, I know what my motivation was. We need to stop being afraid of getting "ripped off" and help because itis the right thing to do!
Give to others with no agenda and if you claim to help others, then do it in whatever way "THEY" need. Stop judging and dictating and bogging the help down with rules. Just help!
What Gives Me Hope
People who believe in what they are doing and who help others without trying to find 50 ways to disqualify the needy person.
If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by
Treat difabled people fairly and recognize that some people who are difabled have children and need adequate housing, jobs, and aid.
"Sometimes, we help people because we pity them. But pity is a weak motivation. It makes our actions self-interested; we know we will feel good afterward. I think it's better to help someone out of pity than not to help at all. But it is best to help people because they are human beings just like me. I help the other, not out of pity, but out of respect.
I want an argument that does not appeal to guilt, fear or pity. I want an argument that explains why helping someone is the right thing to do, in and of itself.
In "An Essay on Man," Alexander Pope said that virtue is its own reward. I ought not need anything else. I ought to help someone in need because the other person's continued poverty diminishes us both.