For those blessed with conviction and wishing to make their faith firm:
There is good reason behind the fact, that the Buddha never advocated disobedience, opposition and "heroism" (social nationalism, rebellion, marxism, worldly/pseudo liberalism) but taming one desires, ones own mind toward world and common. Therefore he steady advices that a gift should not be made if hurting oneself and other (i.e. breaks Silas, veneration of those worthy of gifts, btw., is also Sila).
What ever one gives, may it be how ever well meant, yet without wisdom, will turn against ones long term benefit, if given outside the five seasonal gifts.
"There are these five seasonable gifts. Which five? One gives to a newcomer. One gives to one going away. One gives to one who is ill. One gives in time of famine. One sets the first fruits of field & orchard in front of those who are virtuous. These are the five seasonable gifts."
In the proper season they give —
those with discernment,
responsive, free from stinginess.
Having been given in proper season,
with hearts inspired by the Noble Ones
— straightened, Such —
their offering bears an abundance.
Those who rejoice in that gift
or give assistance,
they, too, have a share of the merit,
and the offering isn't depleted by that.
So, with an unhesitant mind,
one should give where the gift bears great fruit.
Merit is what establishes
living beings in the next life.
Not meeting the first 4, if sacrificed toward the common folk, every of those many heros had soon suffered a lot, brought much suffering among many, without exception in history.
And it's therefore that the Buddha was very clear in his words:
Candala Sutta: The Outcaste
"Endowed with these five qualities, a lay follower is an outcaste of a lay follower, a stain of a lay follower, a dregs of a lay follower. Which five? He/she does not have conviction [in the Buddha's Awakening]; is unvirtuous; is eager for protective charms & ceremonies; trusts protective charms & ceremonies, not kamma; and searches for recipients of his/her offerings outside [of the Sangha], and gives offerings there first. Endowed with these five qualities, a lay follower is an outcaste of a lay follower, a stain of a lay follower, a dregs of a lay follower.
"Endowed with these five qualities, a lay follower is a jewel of a lay follower, a lotus of a lay follower, a fine flower of a lay follower. Which five? He/she has conviction; is virtuous; is not eager for protective charms & ceremonies; trusts kamma, not protective charms & ceremonies; does not search for recipients of his/her offerings outside [of the Sangha], and gives offerings here first. Endowed with these five qualities, a lay follower is a jewel of a lay follower, a lotus of a lay follower, a fine flower of a lay follower."
May all therefore relinquish grave wrong views, even if hard to do, for their quick and long term benefit.
For those who have no doubt in the Sublimity and goodness of the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha of the Buddha, something not accessable, even if touched, by those with no conviction, with grave wrong view and ingratitude, and there is now way to get around, every inhonesty will make things just more worse for one till nothing else the red and head is perceived for long long time:
Saddha Sutta: Conviction
"For a lay person, there are these five rewards of conviction. Which five?
"When the truly good people in the world show compassion, they will first show compassion to people of conviction, and not to people without conviction. When visiting, they first visit people of conviction, and not people without conviction. When accepting gifts, they will first accept those from people with conviction, and not from people without conviction. When teaching the Dhamma, they will first teach those with conviction, and not those without conviction. A person of conviction, on the break-up of the body, after death, will arise in a good destination, the heavenly world. For a lay person, these are the five rewards of conviction.
"Just as a large banyan tree, on level ground where four roads meet, is a haven for the birds all around, even so a lay person of conviction is a haven for many people: monks, nuns, male lay followers, & female lay followers."
A massive tree
whose branches carry fruits & leaves,
with trunks & roots
& an abundance of fruits:
There the birds find rest.
In that delightful sphere
they make their home.
Those seeking shade
come to the shade,
those seeking fruit
find fruit to eat.
So with the person consummate
in virtue & conviction,
humble, sensitive, gentle,
delightful, & mild:
To him come those without effluent —
free from passion,
free from aversion,
free from delusion —
the field of merit for the world.
They teach him the Dhamma
that dispels all stress.
And when he understands,
he is freed from effluents,
totally unbound.
Those devoted to low, serving low and common increase their obligation and bonds to low and common, pulling each other more and more down and outside the Sublime areas and the Noble, untouchable, Domain.