I don’t think that not giving beggars money corrodes your character, though I do think giving beggars money improves it. This can easily be extended from “giving beggars money” to “performing any small, not highly effective good deed”. Personally, it was getting into a habit of doing regular good deeds, however small or “ineffective” that moved me from “I intellectually agree with EA, but...maybe later” to “I am actually going to give 10% of my money away”. I still actively look for opportunities to do small good deeds for that reason—investing in one’s own character pays immense dividends over time, whether EA-flavored or not, and is thus a good thing to do for its own sake.
I don’t think that not giving beggars money corrodes your character, though I do think giving beggars money improves it. This can easily be extended from “giving beggars money” to “performing any small, not highly effective good deed”. Personally, it was getting into a habit of doing regular good deeds, however small or “ineffective” that moved me from “I intellectually agree with EA, but...maybe later” to “I am actually going to give 10% of my money away”. I still actively look for opportunities to do small good deeds for that reason—investing in one’s own character pays immense dividends over time, whether EA-flavored or not, and is thus a good thing to do for its own sake.