Subj : Re: the true meaning of sacrifice
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Rick Savoia
Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 23:35:06

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Trouble <troubleNOSPAM@tekfactory.com> wrote in
news:cr2dnYSBJ6XG87reRVn-uQ@comcast.com: 

> Nick wrote:
> 
>> Tyler Trafford wrote:
> 
>>> http://tinyurl.com/7ree8
>  
>> I don't like the precedent that is setting.
> 
> Quote from the article;
> "So, this is just a different way of getting money out of people."
> 
> In thirteen words they've defined just what's wrong with America,
> notice they don't mention anything about helping people, or a good
> cause... 
> 
> They're basically turning the relief effort into an anoyance, that is
> the first ugly part here, its a tax on your tolerance, not an appeal
> to your better neature. Secondly If I weasn't going to give to a
> cause, or I already gave what I allotted to a cause, annoying me to
> give more $ pushes beyond polite solicitation. 
> 
> People are going associate negativity from the annoyance with the
> cause. 
> 
> However the children are going to see how much money they made, not 
> raised, and call it a sucess.
> 
> The other children will take away from it a negative view of
> charities. 
> 
> I once had a boss[1] who always collected for United Way and he always
> expected you to donate some magical number of $ that only he knew. I 
> stopped giving altogether because I didn't like the pressure from my 
> boss.  
> 
> I'm sure others have similar experience with manadatory work
> donations. 
> 
> The worst part of mandatory work doantions is it assumes you haven't 
> already donated your budget to your cause of choice, or that you are
> ok with the mission and practice of the charity chosen by the company.
> 

One of the things that I learned in running my marathons and raising 
money is that your cause may not be their cause. 

One of my very good friends donated to my first couple of runs and then 
not to my next ones.  His son had become a diabetic and almost died.  
They prefered to send to diabetes research.  He apologized for not 
donating and started to explain why.  I immediately stopped him and said 
"no problem.  You have a different priority and that's fine".

You can't make people donate to a cause.  It makes them resentful of that 
cause.

-- 
"I'm just very selective about the reality I accept" -- Calvin

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