Jack wrote:

Whether that's ego, or a something like a sense of noblesse oblige, I
couldn't say.

Well, since noblesse oblige is an obligation of the nobility to consider the problems
of the less fortunate, it isn't that. Perhaps it's a sense of privilege?

George Patterson
In Idaho, tossing a rattlesnake into a crowded room is felony assault.
In Tennessee, it's evangelism.