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False equivalence: clever (here: profitable) vs humane. You can easily be one without being the other. Or both, or neither. Moreover, people suffer and need e
by Radim 14y ago
False equivalence: clever (here: profitable) vs humane.
You can easily be one without being the other. Or both, or neither.
Moreover, people suffer and need every spare pair of hands these days just as they do every day. In NY, in NJ, everywhere. What's your excuse for "making a buck" and not helping, the rest of the year?
- kombine 14y agoSo you are implying that it is acceptable to have a camera crew filming people while they are dying? Well, that's being too literate, but anyway, if it was a documentary film - I would have no problem with that. The author however quite clearly compares it to "disaster movies" which are not. And making a profit out of an event that caused people's sufferings without helping them out is not what I consider to be good.
- Radim 14y agoAd absurdum, appeal to emotion. Personally, I would find it in bad taste. Profitable? Perhaps... but likely not. At least not directly -- a PR stunt, at most. So, a rather bad combo overall IMO: would piss people off & not make the buck.