Poll: The Great OcUK DC Census [Poll]

[A.N.Other]

wheres my sig gone

There it is

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[Joe42]

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Well i'm confused...
You care deeply about cancer, you've lost loved ones to cancer, but you won't spend a tiny amount of time and effort setting up folding which is likely to be beneficial, and you can't provide a logical reason for that?
Even if its not beneficial, the time and effort involved is so small its no great waste, and your still helping the team by doing it.

That's what I found offensive, Joe. It's the inference, repeated several times, that those that don't fold don't care

Is that not a logical conclusion to come to given the above? I apologise that it was an incorrect conclusion, but i cannot apologise for arriving at that conclusion.

But there are other ways of expressing that, and doing your bit in the fight against cancer. How would you feel, given your circumstances, if someone said you didn't care because you hadn't donated to cancer charities, or McMillan nurses, or Sue Ryder cancer hospices, and so on?

I would provide a valid and logical reason for not doing it, such as i cannot afford it or i perfer to donate to another equailly valid cause.
Folding is different, because it requires almost no effort and money, but if you said you were not folding because it was too much effort or the tiny extra cost was too high, i would accept that.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Joe, please stop quibbling. This thread is to fight misinformation and myths about F@H and DC in general. If there are people out there who do not want to join us let them be. We have gotten our message out, that is all we can do. Whether or not it is persuasive is not for us to determine.

 

[Sequoia]

Well i'm confused...
You care deeply about cancer, you've lost loved ones to cancer, but you won't spend a tiny amount of time and effort setting up folding which is likely to be beneficial, and you can't provide a logical reason for that?
Even if its not beneficial, the time and effort involved is so small its no great waste, and your still helping the team by doing it.

I have never said I can't provide a reason for not doing so. I have said I won't. I have good reason, but don't feel the need to justify a decision on an internet forum. Which is precisely my point - you're assuming that if people won't justify not folding, it isn't for good reason, and that if we can't or won't explain ourselves, it must be because we're lazy or uncaring.

Is that not a logical conclusion to come to given the above? I apologise that it was an incorrect conclusion, but i cannot apologise for arriving at that conclusion.

You're arriving at that conclusion because you don't have all the facts, and don't seem to realise that there might be reasons you haven't thought of.

I would provide a valid and logical reason for not doing it, such as i cannot afford it or i perfer to donate to another equailly valid cause.
Folding is different, because it requires almost no effort and money, but if you said you were not folding because it was too much effort or the tiny extra cost was too high, i would accept that.

My reasons are nothing to do with effort, and nothing to do with the cost of folding, or any other DC project. What I don't accept is that I have to provide a reason in order to convince people on an internet forum that I have valid reason, or I'm automatically uncaring.

And that's what I said right at the start.

It isn't, with me, that I can't be bothered, though that would be the closest option on the poll, but that I am actively disinterested in DC projects.

Why? My business, and I don't feel the need to justify myself on a forum.

 

[SiriusB]

Joe, before you reply to the nice man take a deep breath!

It is great to see such passion for folding but I think it's getting to you Joe. Sequoia said in his original post he has no intention of justifying himself so you shouldn't force the issue.

On a happier note it appears we have had some success with this thread as in the last few days we have had a few new members... and some old-timers have returned to the fold

SiriusB