When someone is hurt, the effects reach out to those nearby and from them into the community. It harms everyone. In a legal sense it becomes a negative statistic hurting the larger community. The same pebble effect occurs with a positive act. The environment changes.
People feel safer, are kinder to each other.
That kindness, which may have started from you, comes back to you. A circle of life. Look around and know that we are surrounded by some pretty amazing people, doing some pretty amazing things. And we've breathed their air, gazed upon the same stars, been warmed by the same sun, stood in awe and aglow under the same moon. Celebrate each other and we empower each other.