Comments on: A Moral Question on Charity http://freetheanimal.com/2008/04/a-moral-questio.html Expressing Our Primal Genes for Lean Health, Vitality and Attractiveness Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:13:10 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brian N. http://freetheanimal.com/2008/04/a-moral-questio.html#comment-3801 Brian N. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:27:37 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/04/a-moral-questio.html#comment-3801 <p>I see nothing essentially deleterious in charity. That said, I agree with everything you say. Someone who donates something is not giving something that was not already theirs; they really ought to enjoy the natural satisfaction of doing a good thing, and not mitigate its goodness by dressing it up in language that implies that they're utterly criminal until they surrender some loot. The implications of such an idea are utterly horrendous in every fashion.</p> I see nothing essentially deleterious in charity. That said, I agree with everything you say. Someone who donates something is not giving something that was not already theirs; they really ought to enjoy the natural satisfaction of doing a good thing, and not mitigate its goodness by dressing it up in language that implies that they're utterly criminal until they surrender some loot. The implications of such an idea are utterly horrendous in every fashion.

]]> By: cube http://freetheanimal.com/2008/04/a-moral-questio.html#comment-3800 cube Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:37:28 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/04/a-moral-questio.html#comment-3800 <p>The main stream media has been snowing us for decades. Poverty & ecology have been very common themes that they have used to beat us about the head.</p> <p>What saddens me most about shows like Idol Gives Back, is that we saw some examples of very needy people who would benefit from receiving some actual money on the spot. </p> <p>Geez, Bono. Reach into your pocket and help that entire town, right now! </p> <p>Don't send the money into some bureaucratic black hole where the money will go to overhead expenses, lavish offices, and lobster for everyone. If the poor get one penny for every dollar sent, I'll eat my hat (a nice hat, not one of those ugly hats you see celebrities wearing all the time) </p> The main stream media has been snowing us for decades. Poverty & ecology have been very common themes that they have used to beat us about the head.

What saddens me most about shows like Idol Gives Back, is that we saw some examples of very needy people who would benefit from receiving some actual money on the spot.

Geez, Bono. Reach into your pocket and help that entire town, right now!

Don't send the money into some bureaucratic black hole where the money will go to overhead expenses, lavish offices, and lobster for everyone. If the poor get one penny for every dollar sent, I'll eat my hat (a nice hat, not one of those ugly hats you see celebrities wearing all the time)

]]> By: Billy Beck http://freetheanimal.com/2008/04/a-moral-questio.html#comment-3799 Billy Beck Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:07:54 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/04/a-moral-questio.html#comment-3799 <p>I first noticed this trope in the late-80's. I could be wrong, but I recall a report on the CBS Evening News that spent about forty seconds explaining to the viewing cretins that everything they ever had was just a matter of luck that they were born into a culture that would take such good care of them, and so they owed a goodly part of that benefit. I have no illusion that Dan Rather & Co. were originally responsible for it -- that's only where I first heard it put that way -- but the thing was solidly ensconced in popular conscience in no time at all. Like: I was hearing it commonly within a few weeks.<br /> </p> I first noticed this trope in the late-80's. I could be wrong, but I recall a report on the CBS Evening News that spent about forty seconds explaining to the viewing cretins that everything they ever had was just a matter of luck that they were born into a culture that would take such good care of them, and so they owed a goodly part of that benefit. I have no illusion that Dan Rather & Co. were originally responsible for it — that's only where I first heard it put that way — but the thing was solidly ensconced in popular conscience in no time at all. Like: I was hearing it commonly within a few weeks.

]]> By: Lute http://freetheanimal.com/2008/04/a-moral-questio.html#comment-3798 Lute Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:33:32 +0000 http://localhost/animal/2008/04/a-moral-questio.html#comment-3798 <p>Geez, that was my thought exactly, last night while I endured "Idol Gives Back." What the hell do they mean give back, I haven't gotten a nickel from them, so how can I give back.</p> Geez, that was my thought exactly, last night while I endured "Idol Gives Back." What the hell do they mean give back, I haven't gotten a nickel from them, so how can I give back.

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