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This brings up an interesting point.. are people more interested in supporting a cause than the cause itself? As a buyer in the retail world, I learn that if you attach a cause to something, people participate. If you order any color shoulder bag and try to sell it, you rely on the functionality of the bag for people to weigh cost vs. need vs. want. Order a shoulder bag with a little pink ribbon on it, and tell people its for breast cancer awareness, and all the sudden the equation changes. The cost is less of an issue, the need is unchanged, and the want increases. People buy it, regardless of how much actually makes it to the cause!


It makes me less likely to respect the validity of the infamous "Save Tibet" bumper sticker. What is complaining about saving Tibet on your Prius's bumper going to do about it? Raise awareness? NO. Make people think you are world conscious? Thats the idea. Forget the fact that China has brought food and organized education to Tibet. Or the fact that previous to occupation Tibet was pretty much in feudalism with the religious power oppressing a serfdom of laborers. But in the words of Penn and Teller on the subject, "the lesser of two evils, is still evil".


My point is, people need to stop and think about what they actually support, and what they are willing to do for it. Here is another example of how easily people are taken advantage of: