Do you ever feel guilty about your lifestyle when you think about the people in the world living in poverty?

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Frequently, and it inspires me to give money to charity and/or scale back my comsumption

Frequently, but I don't do anything about it (or as much as I think I could/should)

Sometimes

Rarely or never, because I live simply and/or give generously to charity

Rarely or never, because I don't think there is any need to feel guilty

Other

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	39%	Sometimes
	33%	Frequently, and it inspires me to give money to charity and/or scale back my comsumption
	17%	Frequently, but I don't do anything about it (or as much as I think I could/should)
	6%	Rarely or never, because I don't think there is any need to feel guilty
	6%	Other
	-	Rarely or never, because I live simply and/or give generously to charity

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I work hard to ensure that we have balance and perspective. My husband and I ensure that our children and ourselves learn how fortunate we are. For birthdays we give money to a cause instead of presents and also use Echoage.com to help us for birthdays, we also do a clothing drive at the kids school in January and our children drop them off to a homeless shelter. we also sponsor a family at the holidays. So while we have much, we also give and strive to teach our children. But we also spoil them too. it is all about perspective

2 years ago

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Guilt is feeling remorse for something you did or did not do that caused affliction to someone else. I did not cause someone else's poverty. I give to charity and I donate a lot of my time to volunteering. But I am not doing these things to compensate for any guilt I am feeling. I give and volunteer because I want to help.

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