Charles L. Cotton wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 4:17 pm
ELB wrote: ↑Tue Oct 15, 2019 2:39 pm
Publicly begging on the internet pretty much makes it everyone's business. Including the moral value of donating.
Not hardly! You don't like it, so in your book that makes it "everyone's business." I haven't seen any complaining about FoFundMe accounts for the families of slain LEO's or soldiers. Nor have I seen any complaining about such accounts for veteran's losing their homes. Once again, selective outrage is ugly regardless where you fall on the political spectrum.
Chas.
Yes, hardly. Putting it out in public does make it everyone's business, whether "in your book" you like it or not. That's the POINT of a GoFundMe. (And let me say "I haven't seen..." is a... shall we say.. very weak argument.) For the record, I am not a fan of these types of GoFundMe-because-I-didn't-make-preparations campaigns. I served in the military too, and I make sure I have funds for my wife and my home. You take on responsibilities, you need to be responsible. You know you are going to die, that is a 100% certainty, you just don't know when.
I have contributed to exactly one personal GoFundMe, set up by a cop on the behalf of the woman who came to the aid of another cop who was sued for her trouble. Most homeowner's insurance will not include intentional acts, like shooting someone in self-defense, and the alleged self-defense "insurance" plans that exist are relatively untested. That fact that a self-defense/defense of others situation happened at all is, for the individual, relatively unlikely, unlike death. I contributed for the practical political/legal precedent -- i.e. legal challenges by miscreants should not go unanswered -- than for the benefit of the woman. You yourself have stated such suits are rare, and I want to keep them that way. I don't want points to go on the board because some gal didn't have the bucks for a lawyer.
That is family has to go out and do a GoFundMe should serve as a lesson to every other head of household. If I knew them personally, based on that relationship I might kick in some $$ anyway. Lord knows I have given $$$ to people I personally know (without the benefit of a GoFundMe campaign) because they were in a jam, in all likelihood because of their own poor decisions, because of those personal relationships and because they were at least trying to do the right thing in other spheres. I have also declined to contribute $$$ to them when they continued to do dumb stuff.
The fact that the dead guy in question was actively engaged in policies highly damaging to our country and yet didn't provide for his family makes this particular instance all the worse. If you want to give them some bucks, go right ahead. I will still point out that he did this to his family, and that is not admirable. They put it in the public domain and that makes it worthy of comment. That is true, not only "in my book."