"When you live in a community, you should try to make things better for the people in the community. Through your efforts someone may benefit. You don't always know when, or who, yet you just do."
The more you do this, the more you invite the growth of a subclass in your community of hard headed entitled self righteous stupid activist types who will listen to nobody.
It really is hard to discuss with such people. And they are everywhere. I am not even sure it makes sense to verbally fight them. It seems that makes them more determined.
It all sounds awfully familiar. I think it's a good thing to have this indoctrinated student's mind verbally exposed. This is exactly what they're taught to think.
It reveals an incredible amount of information about who he listens to, what his mental priorities are, what he fears most, what he values most, as if his brain is oozing out.
I would go far further than "inspire". I think you CREATE such people with a system that always fixes the problems they themselves make. Without facing consequences they never learn.
I was asleep at the keyboard. what I meant was to verbally illustrate "how to fix", as opposed to actually "physically fixing things" pro bono. His word I misread as simple how-tos.
I would never fix someone else's plumbing problems for free. Pay for it, then I will fix. In discussion, I may suggest "how-tos". Such 'efforts' should not create monster-kids.
I would not automatically feel obligated to do so, but I can imagine many cases where I definitely would do it. Helping local community can have many important good effects.
In fact, maybe "producing monster-kids" is the outlier case, and in most cases you almost only improve the community by doing these things. I am just a arm-chair philosopher here
For me though, it would not take much identity politics, talk of "patriarchy", communist ideology or other such things to decide that my good intentions should be steered elsewhere.
I sometimes offer minor charity, often observing polarizing effect. Some respond in kind, others act like carnivores smelling blood. Charity reveals like a litmus test, fascinating.
Now, I don't say that you should not do what gp post says, but if you feel obligated to do it, I believe that eventually there will be so many blue haired activists that your carefully
walled garden will have to break apart just from the pressure of these people. And at that point they will never in a million years listen to you, you are part of "the patriarchy".
Some of those blue haired activists may also have black/brown hair, sunglasses, beard, mustache and a hoodie it seems, but I digress. Underneath it all their hair is definitely blue.