Boundaries and realistic expectations.

You can help people, but also keep an eye out if they are out to scam or hurt you. Then you can achieve the goal of helping while preventing being taken advantage of.

Like in cry wolf example, you don't need the whole village to come check. Just a few, if anything really happen one can go call for more help while the other help chase away or minimize losses.

Dude, are you using LLMs to respond?