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Originally Posted by whitemares
Trying to compare an industry that facilitates the deaths of millions of people worldwide to one that ruins tens of thousands of lives (through personal choice, mind you) is ridiculous. I guess if Cate was accepting an award for the best female CEO of a company that produces alcohol, she would have no right to use that as a platform to bring attention to a pervasive problem in our society as it relates to that industry.
I think you know that was not how I was making the analogy, but yes on the alcohol industry example I agree.
The word I could easily use about a lot of this is hypocrisy and I would apply this also to the current fad of super wealthy poker pros giving lots of money to charity and shouting from the tree tops that they have made the donations, and structuring it in such a way so that they can also grab a lot of the credit for other people's donations who they have subtly brainwashed into making a donation because a successful poker parasite suggested it to them, rather than the person making a donation of their own volition.
This makes the people who are donating to these charity drives look a bit stupid and mentally inadequate IMO, if they are either unable to or not of the mind to make a donation to charity without a poker player suggesting it to them........... oh but sorry, poker players are paragons of virtue, so anything they say should be viewed as if it came out of the mouth of Mahatma Gandhi himself.
I often wonder if for these super successful, super wealthy poker players if this is a conscious or maybe sub-conscious penance on their part. If not, then it is a form of egomania IMO.
Genuine people who give money to charity don't do it to massage their own ego, they do it because they think it's the right thing to do and most of the time they do it quietly or anonymously and without fanfare.
The REG charity I would not include in my standpoint above as I think they are doing what they do reasonably quietly and without much fanfare. And yes I know that some of the charity drives then did donate part of what they raised to REG, so that is a paradox for my argument that I'll just have to live with!
Last edited by SageDonkey; 03-22-2017 at 11:40 PM.