What kind of self-sacrifice is inappropriate?

What kind of self-sacrifice is inappropriate?
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answer:I’ve gone too far in what I thought was helping of others. Turns out I had to learn the hard way that those people had chosen the boats they were in. They didn’t want to take responsibility for their actions and they needed to fall/fail to learn. IMO, it goes to far when the sacrifice is detrimental to one or both parties involved.
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