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I have to ask why these days (especially on this forum) has it become necessary to pick apart every act of kindness reported? Are people deliberately trying to prove that there are no such things as selfless kind acts in this day and age?

Jeffrey Hillman is clearly a disturbed individual who is not taking help he should, but face it if he was taking the help there would be a large contingent complaining about his taking the help.

But my main question is how does the fact that Hillman is not taking advantage of help resources available to him lessen the kind and generous act of Officer DePrimo? Many on this forum complain about the lack of compassion so many Police Officers show toward animals in their killings of family pets and yet here’s an Officer that committed a true act of kindness and it is still berated.

The Lord himself told us:

”You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me.” Matthew 26:11

He also said:

”And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.”Matthew 25:40

I do understand that that it is very hard in today’s world to trust and believe the best in people. I myself am very careful to who and what I give to. May times I have brought a meal and handed it to someone, but very few are the times I hand them cash. But when at times I feel my heart harden to the point beyond what it should I like to think on these words:

Hub McCane: “Sometimes, the things that may or may not be true are the things that a man needs to believe in the most: that people are basically good; that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything; that power and money, money and power, mean nothing; that good always triumphs over evil; and I want you to remember this, that love, true love, never dies. You remember that, boy. Doesn’t matter if they are true or not. A man should believe in those things because those are the things worth believing in.” From the movie 'Secondhand Lions (2003)

In the end our performance of acts of charity and kindness is not as much for those in need, but for the good of our own souls. And there is no balm made better for a trouble soul than HOPE.

I don’t remember the chapter and verse but Jesus said something to the effect of “I send you out as lambs among the wolves.” He also ran the money hangers, who were con men, out of the Temple. I think that it’s suspicious that somebody just happens to record this whole scene. There is a term known as “Opportunity Costs”. Basically, it asks you to see if you are getting the best use of your resources. Could this policeman have better used that $100? I encourage people to be compassionate and generous...just not to con men.