part 353 whalers on the moon

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We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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[(Anonymous)]

by that logic why do i pay $40 a month for internet when that money is enough to raise a family out of poverty in many countries? why do i spend time watching anime and hanging out online when i could have caused more change in the world by volunteering? why do i wear nice clothes when i could hand-sew body coverings of some sort and donate all my wardrobe money? why did i go to an expensive university rather than going to a less expensive school and donating the difference to children in need? why did i buy this ice cream which has little to no nutritional value and is not at all necessary to my diet, when there are starving people in the world? any of the tv shows, anime, manga, and other stuff we have fandoms for - how dare we! think how much difference that money and time spent on fandom could've made if applied to charity instead!

my point is that this sort of high-horse argument is often made to make people feel morally superior to others, but then they refuse to apply the same logic to themselves and scrutinize their own spending for pleasure. now, i could understand the outrage when it came to more extreme cases of frivolous spending, like the potato salad joke on kickstarter that earned over $20,000, or idk solid gold toilet bowls to cushion the shitting buttocks of the 1% or something. but this one seems quite reasonable: people paid money in exchange for getting to go to a convention, having already invested money in it they then have an interest in saving it from cancellation. i really don't see what's so hard to understand or even so frivolous about that. what, have none of the people decrying this been on a vacation or to a con before? because if they have, then do they ask themselves why they spent money on that rather than giving it to a charity?

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[(Anonymous)]

I don't care that they used that money for the con (even if it's likely sketchy/scam what they did) BUT it does make me sigh that those people would not have given money if someone was wanting to raise $17,000 in an hour for something more serious.