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When acts of generosity feel absurd rather than kind

I gave a homeless man a hundred dollars yesterday and he looked at me like I was insane and now I cannot stop thinking about it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The scale of your resources makes normal expressions of compassion seem bizarre and disconnected.

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