Growing good

I am encouraged when government, businesses, people in general do something good.

I realize their motives may be less than stellar.  They probably do expect to profit from it in some way, money, votes, power, even just feeling good about themselves.

But that's okay!

Good is still good and it might catch on and spread and grow and someday be as altruistic as the perfectionists in the world want.

Of course there is doing good and there are things that masquerade as it that are really only manipulating or enabling, which is about as bad as it gets.  Enabling is pretty close to evil.  It appears to act out of love and goodwill while sabotaging good works. That is not good.

Simple acts of kindness make people smile and feel good without encouraging bad behavior or hurting them later.  It's not that hard to figure out the difference.