Why would he be helped if he truly doesn't give? He speaks about this a little:

  the person being aided can reciprocate with degrees of humility, dependency, gratitude, surprise, trust, delight, relief, and amusement

which, at the time, was genuinely valuable [0].

▲ lossyalgo a day ago | parent | next [-]

You left off this part:

> It takes some practice to enable this exchange when you don’t feel desperate.

Which to me means that he had to fake the reciprocity.

▲ BrokenCogs a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Do you donate to a charity expecting reciprocity?

	▲	85392_school a day ago \| parent [-]
		This comment leaves me confused as to what you believe. Do you believe a man biking across the country "takes and does not give" in a different way from a charity, or was "someone who takes and does not give" simply not meant in a bad way?