I believe the new system only allows you to send 50 merits to a specific user within a month, so that's the highest you can award in a post.
As to whether it's right or wrong. That's not a debate, that can be conclusively defined. There's a reason members ration there merits; so they can have some more to give if they come across another deserving post, and except you are a source your sendable merits is limited to how much you can acquire. And there is the likelihood of you running out of smerits when handing them out in very generous amounts
I'm also scared of one thing that when we give higher amount of merits to users, others start backbiting and say that this user is an alt of that and blah! blah!
There already are members who do that (complain about members merit sending habit), but, if you are consistent in your distribution that would answer any query anyone might have.
But this is the Internet, there would always be trolls.