Originally Posted by
Vintersemestre 
Knowing this person exists - there you sit. Enamoured in your nameless self.
I hesitate to respond, presuming that there is nothing I can say that won't feed your existential engine.
So let's say I research the issue and find an organization that does some good and "adopt" the hungry, thirsty yet happy kid. I literally give-up something so that he may have a tiny respite.
Have I been magnanimous, or have I simply attempted to assuage my own guilt and thereby reduced the gesture to something self-serving?
(Actually, I first heard the argument on "Friends" and not in philosophy class.)
Some of your writing is compelling. When you couch it in false claims of ponderous intellect and tag it with "all hail" it becomes reduced to little more than he who touts his Brobdingnagian endowment while the locker room evidence speaks to the contrary.