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Serious question: why should I donate for this cause when I can donate for vaccines or famine relief and literally save orders of magnitude more people?
by anewaccountname 18y ago
Serious question: why should I donate for this cause when I can donate for vaccines or famine relief and literally save orders of magnitude more people?
- mlinsey 18y agoSerious counter-question: Do you donate to those causes? If you do, are you donating as much as you possibly can? In any case, it's natural to look out first for those in your own community (although admittedly you have to have an extremely broad definition of "community" for that to apply here). Yeah, we could get into philosophical debates about how it would actually be better to save more people by looking outside of your community, but this discussion is strictly academic if we aren't already donating as much as we feasibly can. We shouldn't critique steps in the right direction (helping others more) just because they are imperfect.
- wheels 18y agoDonate where you feel inspired to donate; applaud those donating to good causes that don't inspire you. It's not an optimization problem.
- rms 18y agoYou could help a lot if you just called or emailed Sun and told them. There are a lot of email addresses and phone numbers for Sun PR people here, I'm sure they would like to know about this story. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/contacts/index.jsp http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/contacts/index.jsp
- petercooper 18y agoThey'd like to know about a story from their own company?
- Kaizyn 18y agoDollar for dollar, such donations do more good for more people than a donation to help save the one life. However, it's easier for people to relate to individual tragedies than it is to the faceless masses who collectively are in greater need.