Can Helping be a Disservice?

I wonder if my attitudes and thoughs about spirituality have been "all wrong." I wonder whether helping people without questioning is doing them a disservice, and that I should be enabling them to provide for themselves instead. I wonder whether compassion has now been used more for our own feelings of superiority, than to honor that strength in man to pull himself up from hell and make something of his life.

But what of people who really do not want to make anything of their lives?

Just as people like James Taggart (Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand) and Peter Keating (Fountainhead, Ayn Rand) exists to squelch those above him to his level so that he won't feel threatened with the knowledge of his own chosen inferiority, there are people who really do not care to use their own motive force, and those whose motive force IS to harm and hurt. How do I tell them apart from people whose motive force remains with seeking truth and rationale and happiness?

What is truth?

The heroes and heroines in these books have uncompromising values. How can I uncompromise my values when I’m not sure what my values are? Many people don't know what their values are, either... What of it? Is that somehow going to alleviate my guilt of not thinking through my values? Or is that supposed to make me feel better, in the safety of a society without thought-through values?