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<blockquote data-quote="Cergorach" data-source="post: 6371501" data-attributes="member: 725"><p>I don't give money to charities, the reasons are varied. From thinking that certain charities should be paid for from the collective taxes we pay (and we pay a LOT here) to getting more then a little annoyed at getting three folks collecting money for charity a DAY at certain points during the summer.</p><p></p><p>I've done the collecting for charity when I was younger with our local boyscout troupe, but I wouldn't do that again.</p><p></p><p>I have used 25% lower rates for my IT freelance services with non-profits though, mostly because they couldn't afford the normal IT rates and aren't running a profit...</p><p></p><p>I think that the 'Monkeysphere' is crude but accurate, my zone of action is small and very specific. The neighbor next door is only more on my radar then the one two streets over because they keep making this godaweful racket! I'll intervene if someone is attacked, I'll open the door for folks, even stand for the old (if I notice them).</p><p></p><p>Getting a person like me to participate in a charity activity is difficult at best. It's easier to do when you do it with groups, church and boyscouts can be as easily subverted to do charity work together as your local chapter of the Hell's Angels ;-)</p><p></p><p>As a side note. I've given folks that needed money and asked me on the street, twice. Both times it was a scam. One would pay me back later, never heard from him. The other had a sob story about a situation that just came up and gave me the same spiel a few days later (didn't recognize me). Both times I seriously suspected a scam but gave money anyway (~€10-€15), more like an experiment in having fate in people...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cergorach, post: 6371501, member: 725"] I don't give money to charities, the reasons are varied. From thinking that certain charities should be paid for from the collective taxes we pay (and we pay a LOT here) to getting more then a little annoyed at getting three folks collecting money for charity a DAY at certain points during the summer. I've done the collecting for charity when I was younger with our local boyscout troupe, but I wouldn't do that again. I have used 25% lower rates for my IT freelance services with non-profits though, mostly because they couldn't afford the normal IT rates and aren't running a profit... I think that the 'Monkeysphere' is crude but accurate, my zone of action is small and very specific. The neighbor next door is only more on my radar then the one two streets over because they keep making this godaweful racket! I'll intervene if someone is attacked, I'll open the door for folks, even stand for the old (if I notice them). Getting a person like me to participate in a charity activity is difficult at best. It's easier to do when you do it with groups, church and boyscouts can be as easily subverted to do charity work together as your local chapter of the Hell's Angels ;-) As a side note. I've given folks that needed money and asked me on the street, twice. Both times it was a scam. One would pay me back later, never heard from him. The other had a sob story about a situation that just came up and gave me the same spiel a few days later (didn't recognize me). Both times I seriously suspected a scam but gave money anyway (~€10-€15), more like an experiment in having fate in people... [/QUOTE]
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