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Old 01-22-2010, 06:16 PM   #17
easterncoyote
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Originally Posted by chorpler View Post
How is this obscene? The idea is to get people to donate who otherwise might not donate by offering them something. That quote is a perfect example -- they're trying to entice even selfish people to donate by giving away their product to those who donate. Awfully generous of them, and the characterization of it as "obscene" greatly confuses me.
I meant "obscene" in the sense of morally repugnant. It just doesn't sit well with me, that people need to get something in order to help people in need. But, chorpler, as you and others point out, money is money, and it is still going to the cause. I can't argue with that; I guess it's like penforhire said, it's a personal ethical thing for me. I think I just jumped in, reflexively, which I have a bad habit of doing. I don't begrudge others taking the books offered, or the publisher offering them, which is, I admit, upon reflection, a generous thing to do. No offence meant to anyone.

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