Emotional Blackmail and Charity. - Comments

Emotional blackmail is a form of manipulation that involves the use of guilt, anger, or shame to control someone. Here you check hire remote developers and learn more new tips about technology. One way emotional blackmail manifests in charitable giving is through an organization's financial requests for donations. A common tactic used by charities is to create urgency and fear about the consequences of not donating right away; this tactic often relies on guilt or shame.

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@ Miss.Loki.Hina
With the whole celebrity thing I saw Anderson Silva visit this kid with some condition that Big Nog had and wanted to help
him out. The kid is a huge Silva fan and it obviously meant the world to the kid. Anderson didn't make a huge deal out of it, was humble as hell and obviously made the kids life. It made me a little misty eyed to be honest. He did it because he wanted to. The UFC didn't promote it, he didn't promote it himself. He was using his fame and the fact that a kid loves him to make a difference. That's what celebrity charity should be all about.

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I completely agree with that. If you're a large company, you should be pairing up with chairities to market them just because you know they'll get more support that way, not so the company can get more profit itself, if that makes sense.

Ah yeah I understand.

I see this one ad here in America about people supposed to be feeling sorry for animals being neglected and we're supposed to give them 50 cents a day to provide food and shelter for abused animals. Of course, I would go for that in general because I'm an animal lover, but I agree. A lot of these charities ask for money through emotional black mail and all this crap. I don't know how many times I sat here and watched these commercials for cancer treatment centers looking for donations so that the sad little girl/boy sitting in the famous celebrity's lap can get treated for cancer. I tend to change the channel a lot when those kinds of commercials come on.

@ The Zac
Exactly.

@ Nerdybird123
Ahhhh yeah. We have the same thing but it's the RSPCA here. And yeah they do the same sort of thing. When I get home from work and want to sit down and eat my dinner, I don't want to feel like a shitty person because I didn't adopt a dog today.

And yeah I remember learning about it in Geography when I was in high school, it was really interesting to see how the countries who got their shit together from really rough situations and built up industries and got jobs for the locals are doing so much better than they were when we were sending them food and stuff.

@ The Zac
I didn't realize you were from Australia xD here in America the biggest animal adoption/care organization is the SPCA, and they always play really sad, fucking looooong commercials about neglected animals when I'm trying to watch TV.
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Yah, that's actually a really good point. Like that saying: Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

@ Nerdybird123
I have no idea what the SPCA is haha. But yeah I get the idea. There's tonnes of ads like that in Australia. Showing sad animals or kids or whatever and it's like "Fuck you mate, stop trying to make me sad with your shit". It's one of the reasons I couldn't get behind the whole Kony 2012 thing. That and the whole thing was stupid haha.

Don't give them a laptop, but don't give them food either. Give them equipment to farm with. Give them water purifiers. Give them someone to teach them trades and skills. The problem in a lot of these countries is that they're dependant on the aid. If their government is corrupt, then a lot of the aid might not get there anyway. A lot of the more progressive leaders in African countries who are trying to get their shit together in Rwanda think that aid is one of their biggest problems and is detrimental to their progress.

Whenever I see commercials on the TV for charities trying to make me feel horrible, I turn the channel. Not because I'm a bad person who doesn't care. Like you said, it's just emotional blackmailing. Especially that one ad for the SPCA:

"I'm Sarah McLachan-"

"No way, bitch. Your not going to ruin my whole fucking day."

Yah, so that's just me. I think another issue is how our country wants to go out and donate so much money to other nations (especially in Africa, as you said) just because they don't have the technological advancements as us in some places. This pissed me off so bad when there was that yogurt/gogurt commercial a while back. It was a contest where you could win a laptop, and a kid in Africa could get one too. I'm just like stahp. use that money to buy them food, fucktards.

Sorry if I sound stingy or bitchy or doesn't make much sense. It's just what I think.

@ serendipity;
"It's quite rude to pester people". Haha exactly. Sure you're being annoying for a good cause but you're still being annoying.

This actually cracks me up, because I had the blood donation call me in regards to the donation I made three years ago. I hate that these people still harass me (even though I tell them to take me off their lists) because I physically cannot give blood (the loss makes me extremely dizzy, which in turn gives me anxiety...). It's quite rude to pester people.

@ ladyschrei
I get that the companies supporting charity needs a profit as well. But I don't think giving to charity should be used as a marketing tool. The whole idea of giving to charity is helping those in need, not helping those in need while making yourself look very good, thus increasing sales of your product or service.

And yeah it's kind of off putting for me. A lot of them have the whole "Oh you didn't give blood? Why not you could have saved 3 lives? Don't you care about their lives" sort of mentality. And I guess I don't donate because I don't want to. I'm probably eligible but it means I'd have to miss a gym day because I'd be feeling drained. And that would set me back

I agree. While I think it's good to get word out about charities, all that money spent on marketing could just be donated to the cause itself. Not to mention only so much of the profit goes toward the actual cause. You know, forty cents out of every dollar or something. I understand the supporting company needs to make a profit too, but I think it can be ridiculous.

It sucks people around you seem to act like that for giving blood. We do a blood drive every year at my school and a lot of people donate and feel good about it, I've never heard any really "bragging" that they gave blood and such, so I guess I'm glad for that. I myself personally would, but 1.) that makes me faint and 2.) I don't weigh enough for that anyway