I am frankly too busy to keep a ledger along these lines. It’s also a huge waste of time. Most importantly, it does not honor volition. If I gave willingly to everyone and demanded some lavish reciprocal display, that would be the apotheosis of hubris, wouldn’t it? Let me offer an example. Recently, I purchased a Chinese food lunch special for a homeless man. (I despise advertising my good deeds. So pardon me for my gauche deviation.) This man screamed at me. He called me a “white supremacist.” I said nothing back. He was about as repugnant and as insulting as one can be. At one point, he challenged me to a fight. But I stood there smiling. And then he backed down. I still bought him the lunch special because he was hungry. And I did see him eat the lunch special because he was hungry. Now someone like you would probably look to such an act as “undeserved.” But my feeling is that this man, like anyone on Earth, deserves food, water, and basic shelter. And this was my small effort to help someone out. Now most people, including you, would have turned away from this guy. But who else would have fed him? You speak very much like a staunch Reaganite promulgating the lie of the woman collecting her welfare check in a Cadillac. And this is obviously a significant distortion of the Lebanese poet whom you have pilfered your views from.