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When service work feels more like self-comfort than genuine help

I volunteer at the homeless shelter through my church but I am starting to think charity work just makes us feel good without changing anything.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The gap between charitable intention and systemic change reveals the complexity of moral action.

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