The Multiplication of Refusal sets one free.
"Help me." He stopped asking others for help. Likely because when the time came to repay a favor, his own heart would darken. If he thought "what a nuisance" — then "had I never been saved, I would never have had to see this petty version of myself, resenting a precious benefactor." That entire package would have to be bought and swallowed whole.
The Multiplication of Refusal sets one free. The resolve to refuse being saved by the world, and to refuse saving the world in return. Equivalence becomes true equivalence — and paradoxically, one arrives at the certainty of "always helping."