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Originally Posted by chiefzilla1501
If you eat unhealthy and then wonder why you're fat, I'm going to call you out for eating garbage.
We saw millions of dollars get raised for The KONY campaign, and then months later people realized "holy shit, what did I just spend my money on? This might be the wrong cause." You have thousands of dollars going to the defense of George Zimmerman, a guy who gets shadier with every passing day. Now we're donating money to this family who, while probably has the best intentions, could very well be pocketing some of the money for all we know. Or what if the story came out that the bus monitor we sent money to was in fact a huge jerk?
I'm not saying "don't spend your money." I'm pointing out the obvious point that it scares the shit out of me that we're donating money in knee-jerk ways to people and organizations we know close to nothing about. And in many cases, we act surprised when they aren't who they thought they would be. And it scares the shit out of me because there are organizations that fully disclose everything they do and that provide 100 times more an impact than most of these knee-jerk donations, and they are struggling big time for money.
So again... people are free to spend money on whatever they want. But spending it in this way is just plain stupid.
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Look at this way - they could be wasting all that money on tithing.