To give or not to give? That’s begging the question

I’m sick of being coerced into kindness.

I’m quite kind by nature, but I turn surly if it’s made into a no-choice obligation.

Like people who send me fake fauna for Christmas. If anybody out there was planning to send me a bloody goat, just don’t. That’s all there is to it. Don’t. Helen Keogh, CEO of World Vision Ireland, is on the radio all the time being winningly persuasive about the thrill gift recipients can be afforded by getting a card saying they’ve had a bag of locally-sourced weed-resistant corn (with or without the fox and the goose) sent on their behalf to some family in Ethiopia. Similarly (but more irritatingly) those Bóthar animals keep explaining to each other how they fertilise the soil with their droppings, which is SUCH fun to contemplate.