Wrt gofundmes Bc I’ve seen you get a few asks, I saw this tweet once that helped me feel better. The person said their dad’s advice was “if I see someone who needs help and I can help them and choose not to, that speaks to my character. If someone pretends to need help when they don’t, that speaks to their character. I can only worry about my own character.” And I think that’s helpful advice. I’d rather get scammed outta $5-10 If I have it than not help someone who might be really desperate.

Oh, that’s lovely! And yes, very much, exactly. 

I mean, I do understand the other anon’s point, where  it’s not just me giving that money but anybody I pass it on to and then with the many different requests you see online, it actually is kind of a thing where if someone chooses to donate to person A, they might not donate to B. But as I said, everyone should do their due diligence, and as for the second point, I’ll try to give a little every day so hopefully people aren’t really passed over. People will be, realistically, no matter what, if we just look for reasons to second-guess ourselves, there’ll always be so many and we’ll never give anything.