Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
In my experience, the whole process is quite upfront and honest: they are not begging for money, and it is not billed as charity: it's just a direct to end customer business proposition, no more or less moral than putting a product on store shelves or submitting a loan application. Moral analysis is a fairly complex thing, and confusing sober judgement with feelings is dangerous business...I'm sorry you feel my points are unclear, but it is clear to me that you didn't comprehend them. It feels to me that either you didn't read what I said, or you disregarded what I said in order to continue with an argument. I see no point to this, and I'm starting to feel very unwelcome here. I apologize if I offended anyone with my opinion, but I have seen no critical evaluation of what I said, only what seems to be anger, sarcasm, and mockery.
I will try one last time to be as clear as possible: Not every Kickstarter company needs your money in order to publish their product. Some Kickstarter campaigns are done purely out of greed. Yes, some Kickstarters use their campaign money for a good cause, like producing a quality product, or even just being able to release their product, but I am not talking about those. And any personal objection to using Kickstarter myself is because I had a misconception about the use of Kickstarter. I thought that Kickstarter was used solely for crowdfunding projects that could not otherwise see the light of day. I understand now that it also serves as a way to Advertise and provide customers with the ability to pre-order. My point is that it is very misleading, in the same way as the wealthy homeless person example I gave above is.
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