[quote]Just go ahead and donate money. There is no reason for a stupid ice bucket challenge to be spammed everywhere. [/quote]
[quote]I never needed an ice bucket challenge to donate to charity in my day.[/quote]
To those of you with this mindset, kindly do us all a favor and get off your high-horses and shut the -blam!- up. The only way charities get donations is if they raise awareness. What better way to raise awareness than to start a trend that goes viral? The ice bucket challenge is a simple, yet very clever way to get millions of people to raise awareness over this horrific disease. Already over 20 million dollars in donations have been made to ALS research. That's a lot more than any of your asinine ramblings will do.
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Yes, I still think the challenge is extremely stupid. Let me explain why. The original rules were that you either give to the charity for ALS or you dump a bucket of ice water on your head which isn't that bad especially if you're use to swimming in lakes. Most people that I see doing it never donate, they just pour ice water on themselves so they can feel accepted, wasting millions of gallons of water. There's even lots of celebrities that do it just for their own ego with barely donating any money. People with millions of dollars that feel like a good summaritan for donating $100. Also, many, many people do not do it in a "safe place" such as a pool or lawn though I see it still being pointless as it is purified drinking water most times. Did you know that diarrhea is the #1 child killer in the whole world? And the cause of it? Unclean drinking water. Hell, that stuff is like liquid gold in other parts of the world, and that's besides the fact that we're in a drought right now. 97.5% of all the water in the world is salt water leaving only 2.5% fresh water. Of that 2.5%, 70% of it is frozen in the ice caps. 1% of the world's fresh water (~0.007% of all water on earth) is accessible for direct human uses. And that's without even counting the fresh water that's actually consumable. Have you heard of the Clean Water Act of 1972? It established that humans are to recognize the need to protect water. TL;DR There are things worse than ALS.