People, generally, have good intentions. This is one of my ingoing assumptions in most interactions. Generally, people do not deliberately hurt others. Generally, people would like to take actions that help themselves, but would prefer, all else equal, if these actions help others rather than hurt them. But guess what?
It doesn't matter. Because these well intentioned people hurt others all the time.
Especially when the people they are trying to "help" are low status groups (I mean based on societal hierarchies, not as a value judgment) who are given limited to voice to express what kind of help they actually need or want.
With that said, let me introduce the
cautionary tale of #1MillionShirts.
