"John Deere" > wrote in message
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> Let's see if we can move this to some other
> kind of arena... how about charitable donations?
>
> Ok, so once upon a time there was this very
> greedy miser. He liked to get everything for
> himself. He heard about these charitable donations,
> and was very skeptical. But then he heard somebody
> mention that giving to charity made them feel
> good about themselves.
>
> Now he was all about feeling good about himself.
> So he decided to give it a try, and wrote and sent
> out a $5 check to a charity he had heard about.
>
> But that night, he tossed and turned in bed many
> times. He kept thinking of his bank balance
> of several millions, and how the $5 would
> be gone _forever_ from it. He even got up
> around 1 AM to try to raise his banker to
> put a stop payment on the check, but then
> he realized the bank would charge for
> the stop payment.
>
> So he decided he didn't like this charity
> thing too much. But he didn't want to feel
> bad about it, either.
>
> So he argued thus: People who give charity
> are evil. They give only a little bit of what
> they have. If they gave everything they had, many more
> people, whales and things could have been saved. But
> because the charity givers gave only a little bit and
> not everything they had, many people and whales and
> so on that could be saved didn't get saved. They
> even died, which was clearly a result of the
> actions of the charity givers. Some of the money given
> to charity even ended up in the wrong place or was
> misused for the wrong things. So it was all the fault
> of the charity givers. They were killers,
> who simply didn't realize that the ultimate result
> of their actions was evil.
>
> There was no way he was going to join such
> evil people.
>
> Thus having come up with his clever argument,
> he felt very good about not joining
> the evil charity givers.
>
> Others of his type liked his argument, and
> rallied around him.
>
> Though after a little bit of this, normal people
> saw through him and decided he was worth only
> ignoring, and thereby mostly ignored him.

More typical vegan self-promotion by demonization.