RE: how do we as atheists feel about companies using customers to donate money?
June 9, 2015 at 12:39 am
Aside form the as an atheist part, I agree. I also encounter it often, at PetCo, and at Safeway. Feed a starving dog, ma'am? Help a crippled child miss? I feel like an ass every time I say no. (Truth is, I often donate at Petco, because I know the money is going to a local no-kill shelter that I know does good work for animals).
But yeah, for most of these places, how much actually get's to wherever it's going? And where is it going anyway? It's not like they give youa chance to research the charity you are being pressured to donate to.
I was just a Costco a few days ago, a place I had never yet been accosted, and they wanted to know if I would donate to something or other. It bought you a little paper tag, they were strung up all over the store. I said "not today, sorry", and the lady said "Our charity drive ends tomorrow". I'm like....um. Sorry, still no.
It really is a crappy thing for businesses to do, I agree.
But yeah, for most of these places, how much actually get's to wherever it's going? And where is it going anyway? It's not like they give youa chance to research the charity you are being pressured to donate to.
I was just a Costco a few days ago, a place I had never yet been accosted, and they wanted to know if I would donate to something or other. It bought you a little paper tag, they were strung up all over the store. I said "not today, sorry", and the lady said "Our charity drive ends tomorrow". I'm like....um. Sorry, still no.
It really is a crappy thing for businesses to do, I agree.
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
