To give or not to give, that is the easy question. But the question of giving is much more complicated than to give or not to give, it is about how to give well. In many cases, the amount you are donating does not have a positive correlation to how much good you are going to do to a society, in fact it can even have negative impacts . Sometimes giving out money requires a rigorous process of research and ethical debate. In my view, the entire process of giving boils down to two easy yet complicated questions— How much should a person give, and who should a person give to? First of all, how much should a person give? Growing up in a non-religious household, I do not have parents who have a religious obligation to donate a certain amount of their income. Therefore, when it comes to the exact amount of money to give, it is a complicated question for me. It is only reasonable to take a step back to discuss why people give to others? I believe that people should not have any obligations to give to others. Nobody should be condemned or criticized for not giving out their hardly earned money. However, I have chosen to give to others in countless situations. I believe the reason for doing so is that giving to others simply can make people happy. When you give to someone, and you see them utilize the money to make themselves happy in different ways, you can feel their happiness too. With that being said, I believe that the amount of money you decide to give should not have a net negative amount of happiness. For example, If you are a college student that is on student loan and paying rent on a monthly basis at the same time, it is probably not a wise move to donate your rent to Make a Wish to fulfill someone’s wishes. In this situation, you give to a kid to fulfill their wishes, surely you are happy because you made a person happy by making their wish come true, but at the same time, you will have no money left to pay rent. You may get evicted by your landlord, and become miserable and unhappy, because you have no place to live now. Giving money away at the given scenarios will result in a net negative happiness, which I believe is not a wise thing to do. In contrast, if you have five hundred dollars of spare money, and you are thinking about going to Wynn Encore. In this situation, I believe it would be better that this five hundred dollar is given to someone that is in need of it. Going to a Casino can not bring little to none, sometimes even negative happiness into your life, but helping others can guarantee that you are happy. With all the above being said, happiness is something that can not be easily quantified, therefore, it is very subjective how you determine how much happiness doing something will bring to your Life. Now let’s dive deep into the second easy yet complicated question, who should I give the money to? I believe giving in many situations serves as a band-aid to the wound, and has limited effects on curing the actual wound. It is important to admit that if you don’t apply band-aid, a person is likely to bleed out and die. In the case of giving, if you donate to a charity that feeds meals to starving kids in Africa, you can temporarily stop them from starving to death, but you can not solve the root issue of shortage of food. In some cases, it might cause them to grow dependent on humanitarian aid, and stop trying to provide for themselves. To cure a wound, you need medicines, surgeries, stitches and so on. It is the same for giving out money, if you want to help a group of people or solve a problem, you need to understand what is the root cause of the problem you are trying to solve, and find the right approach to solve the root issue. In the case of starving kids, to solve the shortage of food supply issues, they will need to help them grow their own crops, they will need experts in agriculture to help them have stable harvest each year, they will need schools and colleges for them to learn knowledge in agriculture. In an ideal world, there will be enough money for both “band-aid” and “surgeries”, but unfortunately we live in a world where money and resources are limited, so allocating the majority of money to solve the root causes of problems is absolutely vital. In conclusion, to give well comes down to two important questions of how much and who to give? Through the paragraphs, I discussed my views on these questions, which I believe we should give an amount of money that will not cause any diminishing of our happiness, and we should allocate this money to solve the root cause of these problems instead of finding a temporary solution.