I didn't know I was middle class. However, I do have my own sense of "morality". In my experience the best good often doesn't have anything to do with "law". Laws are made for lawbreakers not for people making good moral decisions. Isn't it better to take the cans and bottles out of the garbage, making sure they are recycled? Isn't that the greater good? If something is truly given for charity, the giver has given up their right to decide "who" charity is. (Though swallowing your pride may have been higher moral ground...)

I generally like following the rules but it isn't because I think laws are necessarily the moral high ground, often they are just the opposite.