Ice Bucket Challenge
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It's not a case of whether it's important to me or not, it's that you're being rather judgemental and unfair expecting everyone who earns a wage to sacrifice some of their earnings for charity. If people such as yourself are in a comfortable enough position to donate then that's up to them.
And thats why you don't ever stand under something held by hydraulics.
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Matt Damon: "I'm patron of a water charity, so wasting water seems a little crazy."
*wastes water*
*wastes water*
He didn't waste water. He said he had collected the water from various toilets to fill his bucket. Not so much water from each toilet so that it would need refilling for use. He also did it over some plants to water them.
You have the internet, a computer and a next gen games console.
You are already much more comfortable than the majority of the world. Whether you're a millionaire or not, the onus is on you to help others. Just a fraction of a percent of your salary on a regular basis from every comfortable person would do much for research and illnesses that are supported by charities. So back to my initial gripe with this faceache fad, it's doesn't sit well with me. I'm a hero, I've contributed to charity, like me, etc. So what?! this is usual decent behaviour of a functioning supportive society. It's no revelation. Continue your good actions for the rest of your life and enrich others less fortunate than you. That isn't me being judgemental, that's me being a normal upstanding citizen.
Sounds a lot like a charity tax
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We ran out of biscuits today. I tried to explain to everyone, that even tho' no-one had been to the shop to replenish them, there was actually an infinite amount of biscuits in the biscuit tin.
Nobody believed me and Schrodinger's biscuit tin can **** right off, because it was empty!
Damn you sheeple biscuit challenge, damn you to hell.
For sure that is a very good philosophy for life and admirable but it is you being judgemental how ever you want to paint it. Charity is by it's very nature a voluntary act of giving, you think there should be an expectation to give, thus it isn't voluntary any longer.
Aye, I see what you're saying, I completely agree about it being voluntary. For the sake of maybe one less coffee at Costa a week though, I think us fortunate lot can afford a few pennies to charity. That is what my feeling on it being expected is; deny ourselves just one self indulgent consumerist item once a while. In my job we opt in or out of donating. It's generally expected that we all do opt in. No one is judged upon for not opting in, but pretty much everyone I speak to says the same... It's a few quid a month, it's nothing to us, but everything to someone else.
If that was the case then it would have to be a choice of ANY charity with a registered charity number of your choosing. Not some pre-selected charity or one from a selected list.
I shouldn't have to be discriminated against if I choose to donate to the local wildlife trust, and not to starving kids in Africa.
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And giving my money to charity is the only way I can do that, is it?
Expected by who? If the employer wants to offer the option that's fine, but there should really no expectation or 'pressure' from either the employer or other employees for an individual to do so.
The real irony is that you're criticising the people doing the ice bucket challenge for doing it just for attention, yet you won't stop telling us about how you donate regularly and that you think everyone else should be expected to.
I think that's a tad accusational and het up! I think his general point is that Charity is a heartfelt and pro-active thing. People should give regularly to things they believe in, rather than only donating to something or "raising awareness" whenever there is peer pressure / they think its the cool thing.
It's a dangerous thing for people to give money to things mainly due to it being the "in thing" or cool. Will charities have to start marketing as otherwise they get missed out? Will only a few charities rise to the top and the rest are left without awareness or funds? ALSA have already said they aren't really sure where to direct the funds. I'm glad that the "water bucket challenge" has increasingly become "donate to who you want" and hopefully ALSA will get some significant breakthroughs in the near future too with their new funds.
A large social consciousness to donate is great, but overloading one charity is kind of..."agonizing" to see, for want of a better word.