5th September 2005, 9:11 AM
Indeed, by the same token a single individual littering doesn't really matter. A single individual voting or not voting is irrelevent. It's really the stacked and combined effort of individuals that has any merit in most cases.
And yet, that's the point. These people at the mall asking for donations aren't ordering you to donate. If you don't like that they are asking you, tough, they are asking everyone, not just you, because whenever a single person does donate, it adds a bit to the total amount of donations. There are enough humans running around willing to donate that eventually it adds up to a very large amount.
No you don't HAVE to, but it seems that you were arguing at the start of this thread that you were vehemently opposed to helping out strangers completely. It didn't seem like you had something against being FORCED to help, I can see that. From what you said, you seem to find it out and out wrong or at least stupid for ANYONE to help people they don't know.
And yet, that's the point. These people at the mall asking for donations aren't ordering you to donate. If you don't like that they are asking you, tough, they are asking everyone, not just you, because whenever a single person does donate, it adds a bit to the total amount of donations. There are enough humans running around willing to donate that eventually it adds up to a very large amount.
No you don't HAVE to, but it seems that you were arguing at the start of this thread that you were vehemently opposed to helping out strangers completely. It didn't seem like you had something against being FORCED to help, I can see that. From what you said, you seem to find it out and out wrong or at least stupid for ANYONE to help people they don't know.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)