RE: how do we as atheists feel about companies using customers to donate money?
June 8, 2015 at 7:04 pm
"As atheists?" Qua atheist, I have no opinion on that whatsoever. Qua atheist, I only have an opinion on one thing, and that is the existence of gods.
As for businesses asking for charity that way, I always refuse. I don't give to a charity unless I know what it is. In cases like this, I may have no idea what it is, so it is entirely possible that it is something I would not like. (I am a white man, and I don't care if anyone there believes I am an asshole.)
If you do not like businesses that ask for money in such ways, you can start writing letters to the companies, and stop going to their stores.
Now, I have a question for you. Do the people behind you really say "oh that cheap indian didn't donate" or are you making some sort of guess about their mental processes? If the latter, why do you believe that?
Frankly, if I saw someone not donate, I would form no opinion on why they did not donate, no matter what their skin color. It could be that someone cannot spare the money, it could be that the person does not approve of the charity, it could be the person is a cheap bastard, it could be something else.
If I am standing behind you, I will not say or think what you have imagined.
As for businesses asking for charity that way, I always refuse. I don't give to a charity unless I know what it is. In cases like this, I may have no idea what it is, so it is entirely possible that it is something I would not like. (I am a white man, and I don't care if anyone there believes I am an asshole.)
If you do not like businesses that ask for money in such ways, you can start writing letters to the companies, and stop going to their stores.
Now, I have a question for you. Do the people behind you really say "oh that cheap indian didn't donate" or are you making some sort of guess about their mental processes? If the latter, why do you believe that?
Frankly, if I saw someone not donate, I would form no opinion on why they did not donate, no matter what their skin color. It could be that someone cannot spare the money, it could be that the person does not approve of the charity, it could be the person is a cheap bastard, it could be something else.
If I am standing behind you, I will not say or think what you have imagined.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
