large. “There’s a real danger in the bestowing of gifts upon the hopeless only to inflate the ego of the one who does the bestowing.” She paused, as if to admire the way she’d put this. She might have grown a little cross-eyed. “A real danger,” she said again. After she’d let that sink in, she added, “It encourages self-righteousness in the one even as it destroys self-determination in the other.”
