Free advice
Take it for what it's worth.
Let's say you work on social justice issues. Maybe anti-poverty work. And you want to encourage other people to join you in this important work. Maybe some of them already volunteer their time for other issues. Let's say, animal cruelty issues.
The best way to encourage them would be to tell them that the work they do is unimportant, since as long as there are people suffering, any time we spend working on animals is wasted. People are more important than animals, anyway, right? How could you be so selfish as to ignore the suffering of people while working to prevent animal cruelty?
Ummm, actually, no, this is probably the worst way to go about doing it.
Just sayin'.
Let's say you work on social justice issues. Maybe anti-poverty work. And you want to encourage other people to join you in this important work. Maybe some of them already volunteer their time for other issues. Let's say, animal cruelty issues.
The best way to encourage them would be to tell them that the work they do is unimportant, since as long as there are people suffering, any time we spend working on animals is wasted. People are more important than animals, anyway, right? How could you be so selfish as to ignore the suffering of people while working to prevent animal cruelty?
Ummm, actually, no, this is probably the worst way to go about doing it.
Just sayin'.
Labels: activism
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1 Comments:
Oh Barry -- I can think of so many more worse ways to do it. :)
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Joseph H. Vilas, at 6:54 PM
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