There was a member on Steem long ago who was careless with his keys and ended up losing funds. I knew him for a long time. Not very well, but enough to know he was telling the truth. He wasn't asking for anything but I thought I'd help him out so I passed him 10 SBD which at the time was worth somewhere around $100-$150, I can't remember. Another time I had heard a family member of someone I knew in the community had passed away, she wasn't asking for donations, but I passed her enough funds to cover the costs of at least drinks for everyone at the social gathering after the service. I've handed out a few unexpected birthday gifts.
I've also stumbled across a million and one cases where people are asking for money and I did not give them anything. The point is, charity can't be forced upon a community. If you want to help, give them some money. Don't ask everyone else to give them money, if you're the one who is wanting to be helpful. Because all that does is put everyone else in a spot where they appear to be selfish, while the one truly doing nothing looks like a savior.
That's not directed at anyone. Just some wisdom I've picked up over the years that I thought I'd share.
Lol mate, I don't want to put anybody in a bad position, I don't want to appear as a savior, even I'm not forcing anyone to give any money. My initial suggestion was to vote some posts to help which in my point of view is free, only waste your voting power.
I understand for what you wrote that a funding campaign is too much to ask and that could be dangerous in the way you pointed out.
I'm aware that many other people is helping much more than I do.
I know because I oftenly readed your post that you're a good guy, veteran in steemit who earned his money with effort, but seriously you can't write that last paragraph saying that is not directed to anyone when your answering me, and pretend that I won't feel alluded by that. Is a good rethoric trick to make clear your points in which I can generally agree but that make me feel like an idiot for prentend be helpful and imo isn't fair.
It wasn't my intention to make anybody to feel bad or selfish but if I did I apologize for that.
I was just... telling you a story in an attempt to explain how I see things, with words. It wasn't directed at you, I made that clear. I apologize if you took it personally. It was never my intention to make you look foolish. That part in italics is something I would say to myself, since that's how I think. There's no right or wrong. Just one man's perspective. In the future I'll try harder to be more clear.
Fair enough, maybe it's this quarantine, everybody here is getting too emotional, me included of course. More than a month without going out is too much to handle.
Certainly is hard on the system.