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When friends criticize your approach to helping the homeless

Every time I see a homeless person I give them money but my friends say I'm enabling addiction and now I second-guess every act of kindness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social pressure creates doubt about the effectiveness and morality of instinctive charitable responses.

Ideas that help explain it
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