Just musing and wonderiing.....

I was looking for the quote: "Do good by stealth", thinking it was biblical, but tracked it down (thank you, Internet) to Alexander Pope's Essay on Man and the full line is : “Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.” In other words, be embarrassed if you get a reputation for 'doing good'. It's a good 60 years since I studied that poem, but the line - or half of it - had stayed with me.

Agreed Baggs

That American phrase, 'Bleeding heart liberals' springs to mind. What is wrong with caring? We all should care.

AFAIK the term has always had connotations of bossiness. and/or interfering ‘for your own good’, though.

I don’t think it’s ever really meant the same thing as ‘people who do good’.

Without knowing the context of that local FB page comment, one can't really judge in this instance, but what I said above holds everywhere.

It's when so-called do-gooders are perceived to be interfering where they shouldn't or virtue signalling their goodness that people object.

In general actually doing good quietly and without boasting about it is as valued as anyone would want it to be.

‘‘Twas ever thus……