E.g. do you never
give money to charity because in response to any donation to one cause someone could object listing thousands of other good causes you've done nothing for?
And if it be responded that Americans
give money to charities because it's advantageous to do so for income tax purposes, well, let's be grateful that, in affording full deductibility to charitable giving, the tax code got something right.
Not exact matches
Or maybe it is
because money extracted from the hands of one
to give to another is not
charity.
Compare the gobs of
money given to charity because of his article «Famine, Affluence, and Morality»
to the three dollars
given because of my book.
It always seemed that the majority of the
money collected for
charity stayed in the hands of the rich white folk who collected it and the majority of the «help» that was
given came in the form of the rich white folk telling the poor folk that they should be happy with a few crumbs and continue
to support the status - quo
because it was gods will.
Yes,
because as we all well know the Nazis
gave all their
money to charity and not
to the government.
Re: idiot above claiming it is bigoted and dogmatic not
to give to a believer
charity, if it is ok for believers
to argue that no
money should be
given to Planned Parenthood
because it mind find its way
to the part of PP that provides abortions (70 + % of which are for believers in th USA), it is ok for non-believers
to argue that donations
to a cult based
charity might find their way
to the cult's indoctrination division.
I
give to the church
because I like it there and the
money helps the church
to function, I
give to charity and volunteer
to help other people
because that is what I should do.
If atheism is such a peaceful cult,
because it is in fact a cult, then why doesn't Bill Gates who have billions of dollars don't shares it with the poor and the needy ones instead of using the so called
giving money to charities which he do
to avoid over taxes and then reclaim his donations on his next income tax form.
The
charity was in need of
money to alleviate a desperate situation but would not accept the donation
because it refused
to be seen as complicit with a company as immoral as Nestle, or
to give such an odious corporation any good publicity.
«I always felt like we didn't have any
money but now I know it's
because my parents
gave a lot
to local
charities and invested for their future.
And, there's no reason
to consider charitable trusts if you don't want
to give to charity,
because you're sacrificing the ability
to do anything else with the
money.
And Posner also identifies a practical problem:
because the
money that users put up will go
to a
charity, the potential loss doesn't
give users enough incentives
to stick
to their goals.
Kalajdzic says: «This is
money that in theory belongs
to class members who were wronged by defendants» conduct; the
money is
given to charities or non-profit organizations
because the judge and lawyers have determined it is too difficult or expensive
to give the
money directly
to class members.