Not necessarily I suppose. The helpful, kind or generous behaviour could be coming from a place of manipulation, the needs of the person, etc. However, even if one isn’t wholly altruistic in one’s intentions, the recipient might not be aware of that. So if they perceive a helpful, kind, generous gesture to be one of kindness, it might very well be kind :/ There’s also the old adage that sometimes one has to be cruel to be kind, which I can attest to ;)