Hypocrites Those Without Sin Cast The First Stone

[johnny.5]

reading the thread about MasterCard
and seeing the news with all the quotes from twitter
most slagging MasterCard off for some misguided ad campaign
how many of those criticising are sitting on savings sat in their bank account instead of sending some to thee starving children ?
how many of them are wasting cash on luxuries instead of sending some to the starving children ?
how many are living in nice homes with spare unused empty rooms instead of offering them up to the homeless?
we live in a privileged world in very good conditions and should count ourselves lucky and not criticise those that offer help in any way they feel fit

[mushroom25]

there's not enough information in either of your examples to make an informed judgement johnny. you need to know what the charity worker is intending to achieve, and pitch the form of donation accordingly. no fun runner would make it across America, that's unrealistic. but a battle hardened lycraman probably would. if the marathon runner stopped at the pub, you'd need to understand why before judging them.

[rowanwitch]

I give what I can afford and give time or practical help when I can. There will come a time soon when I have more time and next to no money. If I have some small savings now it is for a time when I will need it . I don't put conditions on what I give but at least research the causes I support.

[kvalidir]

I give plenty of money to charity and to needy individuals, I also give up my time and make personal efforts to support those less fortunate than me. I try to only support and associate with people and companies who do their bit in terms of making the world a better place and in giving up their time to charities etc because I find individuals who don't have something inherently repulsive about their basic characters. We all do what we can in ways that we can, but what we don't do is dangle the promise of FOOD, FOOD for God's sakes in from of needy children based on whether some overpaid sports idiot can do his job well or poorly on any given day. Am I a hypocrite? No I don't think that I am, I put my money where my , effort, time and mouth is by and large, and if I dare to have a little left over for myself then I feel I deserve that, like everyone else does.You can't change the world single handedly but you can make efforts to ease it changing into something better.

[Mamyalynne]

I didn't comment on the original thread because I didn't feel well enough informed on the whole campaign and still don't really.

It doesn't sit easily with me but maybe other parts of the campaign have been better thought through.

//Goals that Change Lives is part of the Start Something Priceless campaign which aims to combat childhood hunger and malnutrition in Latin America and the Caribbean.//