Reply #234: Shorter: "What stupid charity!" /// MuddleOfTheRoad: "But it was CHARITY!" [View All]

[scottxyz]

The original post in this thread, in GENERAL DISCUSSION, expressed the OPINION that donating $42,000 to watch a bad movie may be charity but it's a STUPID kind of charity.

MuddleOfTheRoad has wasted several posts claiming that this was CHARITY.

Nobody said it wasn't CHARITY, MuddleOfTheRoad. Nobody said the man didn't have the RIGHT or FREEDOM to spend his $42,000 as he chooses.

This thread is not about whether a man has a right to spend $42,000 in what he sees as charity.

This thread is saying that a person who does so - WHILE ENTIRELY WITHIN THEIR RIGHTS, and WHILE PRACTICING WHAT COULD ENTIRELY CORRECTLY BE TERMED "CHARITY" - a person who does so is a MORON.

The question, MiddleOfTheRoad, is not whether this was an act of charity.

The question, MuddleOfTheRoad, is whether the person performing this act of charity is a MORON.

Could you please address the QUESTION, MuddleOfTheRoad. We all KNOW this person committed an act of CHARITY. We know they have a right to commit any act of charity they want.

(They could buy baby bottle and cribs and pampers and mail them to a woman who just had an abortion as well. Under your naive definition of CHARITY, such a stupid act would also qualify as charity.)

(They could buy tickets for their entire parish to see another movie about Christ, "The Last Temptation of Christ" - which many found to be not so supportive of Christ.)

The questiopn, is, MuddleOfTheRoad - is this person a MORON? NOT because they spent so much money. Because maybe the MOVIE IS NOT SO GOOD.

These are the questions here, MuddleOfTheRoad:

(1) Was this act of charity ill-advised?

(2) Could the money have been spent on something better? Could the money have been spent on a LOT of better things, given how bad and violent and gory and slanted and divisive and sado-masochistic many people find this movie?

(3) Was the person spending this money hoodwinked? Are they a moron?

PLEASE answer one of these questions from the original post - and STOP answering your own made-up question over and over again which nobody asked: "Is this an act of charity?"

Enough of the third-grade straw-man tactics, MuddleOfTheRoad. People are catching on.

You can play "reductio ad absurdum" some of the time with a roomful of people, but with you can't play it for long with 40,000 people on DU.