Footnote
I see fit today to add a footnote to my counterexample to the Kantian idea of moral worth . It's a quotation that I read from Michael Moncur's Collection of (Cynical) Quotations for today: A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation. Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10 British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970) It would have been inappropriate to approach the crying woman out of duty. She would have responded to the emotions of the person approaching her rather than the reasons. If you are approaching someone in that position out of duty, what would be the accompanying emotion? Most likely patient resignation. If you are approaching her out of sympathy, what would be the accompanying emotion? It is probably too strong a claim to say that you like a person that you don't even know. Yet you seem to be at least giving her the benefit of the doubt