> I actually think that this SV mentality of helping others (to that extent) is morally wrong. I think it was an accident - clearly the goal wasn't to enable f

> I actually think that this SV mentality of helping others (to that extent) is morally wrong. I think it was an accident - clearly the goal wasn't to enable fraud. I tend to avoid writing full solutions to anything to help avoid making the same mistake. > Whenever you're helping someone with anything, just keep in mind that you're also hurting someone else behind the scenes... Only in zero-sum games - learning and teaching generally aren't. Mistakes like this aren't great, but collaboration in general averages out to helping us all out, in the end. Helping people out got me my first tech job, where I proceeded to help them finish their projects. Other people helping me out got me to the point where I could help other people out in the first place. > Why should simply meeting a person make them any more deserving of your help? You're just rewarding luck over hard work. This is really evil. Everyone gets lucky sometimes, and doing your part to spread the luck around isn't evil. If anything, it's attempting to balance the playing field. If everyone is just as lucky, then hard work becomes the differentiating factor once more. After all, it's not like luck is exclusive to the undeserving.