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On June 20 2009 11:54 Judicator wrote:Show nested quote +On June 20 2009 11:44 Brett wrote:
I was about to post about just how pathetic some of the comments are in this thread, but it seems Evan and Fiery have pretty much said it all.
The cynicism in this thread is ridiculous. Or realistic, everyone has problems, none of them as serious as the person in question, but knowing someone personally and a random person in a tragic situation changes the dynamic of the situation. I mean yes it sucks, yes it was a compassionate move on Pixar's part, but for everyone else it's just that, why would you get worked up over something like that? I am more inclined to think the people who do have never done any kind of charity/volunteer work beyond donating money, which is perfectly fine, but it just seems so empty to me.
This. Thousands of children die every day in ways that are much more tragic than the girl in this story, and that's never news.
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On June 20 2009 12:20 misclick wrote:no souls on the internet the only interesting part of this story is that the pixar employee took the dvd with him just in case it would lead to a GIGANTIC PIRATING OUTBREAK Show nested quote +On June 20 2009 12:14 BalliSLife wrote:
what's even more sad was that she didnt even get to watch it since she couldn't open her eyes lol'd at that part. what a waste of a dying wish.
The dying will decide what is fitting of a wish for them. Shut the fuck up.
I don't ever troll, but that bothered me. Seriously dude?
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im gonna be sad all night now
that girls a trooper i wouldnt be ready to die at such a young age :p
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On June 20 2009 09:39 floor exercise wrote:Show nested quote +On June 20 2009 09:15 strack wrote:
Great marketing for Pixar
Maybe If I had a vagina I also would be manipulated by this story.
Kids die. It sucks. But why would I be sad if I don't even know this girl?
LMAO. where is this from (the movie)?
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great publicity for pixar
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And she couldn't even see the movie, her mom had to describe it to her 
So sad
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I really like what Pixar does. My condolences to the family
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how can you guys care for this girl? you don't know her
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On June 20 2009 09:53 sushiman wrote:Show nested quote +On June 20 2009 09:44 evanthebouncy! wrote:On June 20 2009 09:38 sushiman wrote:On June 20 2009 09:29 Delerium wrote:
that's a pretty cynical way to look at it... can't it be news because it's a touching story? Well, touching story = attention/money. That's sadly how it works. Her dying wish being to see a movie doesn't make it any more tragic than other death happening daily in the world, no matter how cynical that view may be, but it's potential to be exploited for profit is greater than many other cases which may not be 'newsworthy'. And personally I find that more tragic. Wrong. If the new's is on ABC maybe you have a point. But no it's not. Seriously guys nowadays sees everything wrong, just seeing the stereotypes "omg big company = only care for profit = whatever they do is only for profit = they are evil = they can never just act out of kindness" Big company is made of people, and people are generally kind, there is no reason why they can't be nice. Sure, there is no reason to why they wouldn't be nice. But think about it; who would spread these news out? Would Pixar not benefit from having this spread out? It's obvious they would take advantage of such an event for some publicity, and even if it was initiated by some people out of good will, it was most likely exploited by marketing people for some goodwill amongst the public. In the best case we probably wouldn't have heard of this at all. Well, all of this really doesn't matter. The girl sadly died, and got her last will carried out. Personally I don't like reading about these kind of things because of the things most likely going around in the background, which makes me wish things like this wouldn't be published at all, rather being goodwill acts existing in the background.
agree. and i mean cmon....its frekn disney were talking about. if they were to disappoint the family and lil girl, they'd disappoint the whole world. they'll get bad rep and everything. but that didn't happen and they're getting good rep. yay for pixar.
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Wow this is a sad article... RiP to that little girl.
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Pixar isn't exploiting this for publicity, stop saying that. This isn't a top story on any main stream news or anything. If someone didn't dig this up and post it here, many of you would have never heard of it. Props for Pixar. I just wish I didn't read it, I don't like being sad
On June 20 2009 14:20 stroggos wrote:
how can you guys care for this girl? you don't know her To care about others of your kind, specially infants with a long life-span ahead; is a natural mechanism developed after millions of years of evolution, by animals that rely on social interaction to have a better chance to pass their genes forward, and for the success of the species. You would know this if you weren't a step backwards in nature.
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10 year old dying of cancer is very sad , pixar is amazing for doing what they did. I am going to buy the movie now just because of this story.
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I sincerely hope this isn't some kind of attempt to grab publicity by Pixar, that would be utterly shameless. This is touching and sad, but shouldn't really be on the news; the family needs their privacy in their time of grief more than Pixar needs to show people how they did a good deed.
If this is not the case and Pixar had nothing to do with this being covered in the news, though, then they truly deserve respect for what they did for this young girl. What would be really cool is if they made a foundation in her name and used some of their profit to fund research to fight childhood cancer.
On June 20 2009 14:36 VIB wrote:
To care about others of your kind, specially infants with a long life-span ahead; is a natural mechanism developed after millions of years of evolution, by animals that rely on social interaction to have a better chance to pass their genes forward, and for the success of the species. You would know this if you weren't a step backwards in nature.
Actually, if you had read On the Origin of Species, you would know that this is false; species is not the basic unit of natural selection; humans are only hard-wired (and biological organisms in general) to care for the well-being of those who are likely to carry on their own genes (i.e. family members). This basic concept is group selection; the most successful genes are the ones that increase the chance to replicate and altruistic genes would be taken advantage of by selfish genes. You should probably do your research before you knock somebody and tell them they don't know anything, when your idea of the concept of natural selection (and even what the basic unit of natural selection is in the first place) is erroneous.
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On June 20 2009 14:36 VIB wrote:Pixar isn't exploiting this for publicity, stop saying that. This isn't a top story on any main stream news or anything. If someone didn't dig this up and post it here, many of you would have never heard of it. Props for Pixar. I just wish I didn't read it, I don't like being sad
Not to mention, exploiting this for publicity is a far lesser evil than not letting the girl watch the movie. Some of what has been said in this thread is like saying philanthropy by the super rich is bad because it is only done for publicity. So these cynics would prefer to see these big names refrain from doing generous deeds because any attempt at being generous is really just an attempt to gain positive attention. Not trying to gain publicity is more important than doing the right thing for such cynics.
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Im glad she was ready;ready for heaven.
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On June 20 2009 14:20 stroggos wrote:
how can you guys care for this girl? you don't know her
Shut up kid.Damn you for not caring she was only 10 thats way to young to die...
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I love when people come together to bring even a moment of fleeting happiness for others.
As a parent I can't even comprehend how deeply this would have touched me!
Thanks for posting, the article is on msn right now =).
edit: Alot of you are flat out bad people
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On June 20 2009 15:16 Halfpastnoob wrote:Show nested quote +On June 20 2009 14:20 stroggos wrote:
how can you guys care for this girl? you don't know her Shut up kid.Damn you for not caring she was only 10 thats way to young to die...
And being 10 years old and dying and your only wish is to live long enough to see a movie. That is something only a child do, its not like some 80 year old man who wanted to see the animated version of jack lemon in grumpier old men 4.
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Girl's dying wish is to see movie "Up", dies after
>Dies right after
Was the move that bad?
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