Perhaps in situations when dealing with an entity that’s equally (or more) cold-blooded or cut-throat and doesn’t have any personal skin in the game. Such as in a negotiation with a corporation that’s never going to care nearly as much about me as a person as they do about what they can get out of me; or perhaps a similar entity like a VC firm.

But I agree that it’s shitty to take more than you give to individual people.

Good points, thank you cimmanom!