Would You Ever Save a Child if You Could?

Originally posted by KidRock
I believe all those charities are scams. The CEO of the red cross makes almost half a million dollars a year..yeah, no thanks I will not be donating money to her salary.

So lets see. The Red Cross gives out a billion dollars a year in international charity work and you want to condemn them based on their CEO having a six figure salary?

A better criticism would be that "charity" is just another way of saying "welfare". Every time you save a kid from dying it teaches them to be dependent on others. If a five year old can't pull himself up by his own bootstraps that isn't anyone's problem but his own, it's insulting that people would ask for my money to save someone from their own laziness.

Six figures a year isn't all that much money anyways. I'm a business owner and I know full well that once you get there and you have other expenses it isn't what it seems. It isn't bad money, but you aren't "the stuff" by any means. I guess it depends as it is an elastic term, but still. A person making 10,000 a year moving up to 30,000 a year will have a larger impact than someone making 1mill a year and moving to 2mill.

I like to donate and help those who want to help themselves and try, not to those who don't want to do anything. I detest laziness.

Two other things, giving will always come back to you more, and I'm not saying that it's the truth from experience. I've seen the results first hand.

Also giving money doesn't solve anything if the person/mindset isn't change, there are a vast number of people, even in America who you could do anything for and they'd still be poor. I've tried to help out certain people, give them jobs, and I recently did a loan (which I almost never do), to find that the said person gambled it. People make themselves poor more often than not, especially here. So many people make excuses when the answer is right in front of them and they just don't want to do anything about it.

Originally posted by ADarksideJedi
I would and I would also save babies from not getting aborted as well.

Originally posted by Tha C-Master
A person making 10,000 a year moving up to 30,000 a year will have a larger impact than someone making 1mill a year and moving to 2mill.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
So lets see. The Red Cross gives out a billion dollars a year in international charity work and you want to condemn them based on their CEO having a six figure salary?

A better criticism would be that "charity" is just another way of saying "welfare". Every time you save a kid from dying it teaches them to be dependent on others. If a five year old can't pull himself up by his own bootstraps that isn't anyone's problem but his own, it's insulting that people would ask for my money to save someone from their own laziness.

I agree with a lot of what you said, but a five year old? Come on, that person is still a baby in terms of life experience. The concept of being mature, and responsible to many kids that age or even older, is as alien as learning to speak another language. Most children, just wouldn't be able to grasp it. Being a child is as important as being responsible no?

I'm not trying to criticize you on your beliefs, but were you ready to support yourself when you were five?

Are you an idiot?

Originally posted by jaden101
Are you an idiot?

Well, without context sarcasm is hard to detect in writing.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
So you would help abort them?

No I would stop people from aborting there babies.It is sad that kids are hungry out there and I want to help that too.But people don't think that kiling a baby is also bad.

Originally posted by Bardock42
Well, without context sarcasm is hard to detect in writing.

Poe's law strikes again.

I'd say it is still a better criticism than deciding that all charities are scams.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
So lets see. The Red Cross gives out a billion dollars a year in international charity work and you want to condemn them based on their CEO having a six figure salary?

I think it might be more relevant that the CEO of a major international organization like the Red Cross, which handles billions of dollars every year, is only paid in the six figures.

I would also save babies from not getting aborted as well.

It's none of your business if a woman who has made up her mind wants to have an abortion.