Originally Posted by JonLaw
The problem is things like this interferes with the moral idea that you *should* give what you have to someone else if they ask you regardless of how you feel about it.

Jon Law, where on earth did you hear that idea? [citation needed]
I don't think martyrdom is very moralistic. Maybe I've just never met a martyr who was doing it right. Excercise empathy to guide your decisions. Cultivate a sense of community responsibility. Surely that's obvious. Certainly it's a work in progress.

Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar