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Caring folk?!
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I was really quite sickened to read this in a nottinghamshire paper how can they call themselves caring folk? £25,000 to switch on some damn christmas lights and they think they're caring. It makes me so angry, these people are so shallow. When it comes to a good cause they'd be lucky to raise £50 :mad:
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What gives you the right to decide what charities and good causes people donate to?
So an event like switching on some christmas lights is a good cause or a charity?
For some people yes, for others no.
All I can say is good luck to those people then. The only word that comes to mind though, is shallow.
What's so shallow about civic pride?
Just because you don't have any doesn't mean that those people are "shallow" for footing the bill for their town's Christmas festivities.
It's great to see that sanctimoniousness is alive and well.
serious though, it's their money. let them spend it or give it away any way they see fit.
it seems kinda silly to me, but considering how many clothes i've bought this year, i don't think i'm in a position to call anyone shallow. you know?
I seriously doubt you are in a position to call anyone else shallow, magdal. Few are.
shallow for wanting Christmas decorations?
expect the Ghost of Christmas past to come visiting sometime soon...;)
Yet, in the same paper, the week before - "THE caring sister of a courageous Mansfield Woodhouse schoolboy suffering from a brain tumour for a third time is launching a fundraising drive to help raise awareness of the disease."
I wonder how much she'll raise. Probably nowhere near £25,000.
Oh yeah, of course I'd call that shallow :rolleyes: I'm really evil for thinking it's a complete waste of money. What I don't understand is how they can call themselves caring?
Depends on how many people come forward to help with the fundraising, maybe you should volunteer.
Maybe I should.
I see your point, but the world is more complicated than that. As Kermit said, don't underestimate civic pride.
you don't know how much money they gave to other causes.
is it still shallow if someone gave £10 to the lights fund and £150 to a children's charity?
I don't really see that Mansfield have much to be proud of, in my personal opinion, it's the arsehole of britain, excuse my language. Or maybe it's one of many. This is only in my experience of course.
Yes I'm sure it'll make many people feel all warm inside and I'm happy for them.
Granted, I don't really know how much money they give to other causes but I'm willing to bet it wouldn't come to that much. I think a children's charity would benefit more from the money than the lights fund.
What depends on the charity?
One whether they'd benefit more than this christmas light fund. I quite like pretty lights in town to be honest.
i think you'd be surprised. the hospice Kermit mentioned isn't a big charity, but they still make more than £11,000 every day.
the big, national charities (RSPCA, Cancer research, etc, etc) make a lot more than that.
people are more generous than you think.
i don't think anyone's disagreeing. the point is, that's not your decision to make. those people earn their money, and so they're free to spend it any way they want.
Yes I agree totally that it's their money to spend as they wish but it's just Mansfield all over. I myself would rather give my money to something or someone that would benefit, the christmas entertainment and lights will be over and done with in a month and in my opinion that's £25,000 down the drain, maybe I have my priorities wrong.
The child isn't dead though. And I'm also willing to bet he isn't the only one who has suffered from this, there will be other people. As I've already said, the christmas celebrations will be over and done with in a month, that child may still be alive and suffering as well as others.
People will come in to Mansfield, people will spend, putting money into the economy there. That money will then be donated again to someone else, somewhere else.
You see it as a waste of money, so don't donate to it. But you have no right to attack other people for thinking it is a charity worth donating to.
Most people who donate to charity don't just donate to one or two charities. I personally donate to three or four, when I have the money, and no doubt I would be attacked for at least two of the charities I sometimes give to.
The Christmas lights can be used next year, they might encourage spending in Mansfield which will improve the town, they might encourage people to give to charity. Would you rather a dreary town centre at Christmas? It is a celebration afterall.