Another Million Little Pieces?

babyontheway
Thu, 21 Apr 2011 06:07:15 +0000

I don’t get it.

If you pass off fictional stories as being real, in order to convince people to donate to your cause, at least some of the people who donated wouldn’t have if they heard the unembellished real story.

Isn’t that akin to stealing? Telling people a tall tale so they donate to your cause, which you personally benefit from?

Most people defending him say that, well, let’s ignore the tall tales, etc and just think about all the good that he has done.

But - much of the good that he has done has been from money collected under false premise. Does doing good with ill-gotten donations mean that it’s ok the donations were gotten through trickery?