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[โ€“] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The very optimistic would suggest that maybe giving a cookie would inspire them to think deeper about the imbalance and how they could do better as a human being to others.

But realistically, they're going to take your cookie and then try to sell you that their cookies are better and you should buy them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

The way I see it in such a scenario there's no chance of it making them worse and at least its a tiny moment of human connection which can only be a good thing no matter how incalculably small.