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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Runestar" data-source="post: 4633106" data-attributes="member: 72317">I guess it is the same rationale as to how people can just donate a dollar or 2 to charity, despite having so much more in their bank accounts, and go to sleep at night thinking that they have done a very good deed. They continue to live in their billion dollar mansions while others survive on scraps of food. And these are the people who consider themselves philanthropists. Their donations, while probably sizable relative to what the average person would give, would barely make a dent in their personal fortunes.There are possibly many degrees of "goodness" or altruism. Just because someone else is much more generous or helpful/dedicated/devoted than you does not necessarily diminish your own contributions. A line has to be drawn somewhere. Yes, you could spend your every waking hour treating the poor and sick, but I think the point is that you don't have to. Clerics too have lives outside their "9-5" day job at the temple, and deserve to have personal time as much as the other people. Else, healing people would probably become a chore which they would come to dread. You have to be selfish to be generous, IMO. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>