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First of all I'd like to apologize for my argument that donating nothing at all is better than donating to Child's Play. As niteReloaded pointed out, it was partly due to the fact that I wanted to put some "spice" into my post and provoke some thinking on the matter. Partly it was due to the fact I am a person who gets really emotionally worked up on moral issues and after I had spent hours researching the US health care system and checking every single hospital donated to by Child's Play, finding out they are all private, I was heated up. After a good night's rest and some distance to the topic, I think we can all agree on the fact that donating money is always better than not donating any money at all.

I regret having posted this part, because many people took it out of context and solely responded to that (flawed) part of my post. I also don't feel morally superior or am saying that I am a morally perfect person, although I try to live up to my own moral standards as much as I can. I could go into detail on that, but it would further distract from my core argument and I dont want this discussion to be about my person, or any person at all to be specific. If you think its hippocritic than so be it, but imo its no more hippocritic than critizising a politic for his actions when u sit on your comfy chair and aren't politically involved and active member of a political organization or than FakeSteve critizising progamers on powerrank. If criticism like this wouldn't be tolerated our society would be pretty backwards.

My core argument, like people as GrInq obviously have understood, is just that I think that tl.net could have done much better by spending to a more "deserving "(in lack of a better word) charity.
I think the argument that this is a gaming website and thus needs to donate to a gaming related charity organization is flawed. Maybe we can relate better to a gruesome hospital stay which was made better for us when we could play on our gameboy (In fact I had such a stay in a hospital as a child). But I would be ashamed of myself If that would mean I couldn't feel more pity for someone not being born in a wealthy country and starving to death, or some immigrant child being refused proper treatment cus of uninsuredness. In fact, again like others said, a ton of people come to mind that need help more than a kid needs a videogame in a hospital. If I would not have had the chance to play a videogame as a kid in hospital because some donators decided to give it to those people, I certainly would have understood and approved of their decision when I had grewn up.
In moral issues, I think we should consider ourselves humans first and foremost and not gamers.

Here is a story which probably helps further explaining my standpoint: My aunt and uncle are veterinarians. They are at the receiving end of charity coming from rich widows of their city, which pay for veterenarian bills for animals of homeless people. They told me myself that they sometimes feel bad when a homeless guy comes in and gets his dog treated, but is obviously in such a condition that he would need health treatment as well, but there isn't enough charity being spent to organizations who would finance that treatment. Obviously those old women can relate more to the poor animals than to a "bum" (in the case they dont as well donate to those organizations, which at least some of them don't im sure).
In reference to this case, don't you think some doctors probably feel bad when they have to release a sick child earlier than they should, cus the coverage of the insurance or the financial funds from donations isnt enough and on the same day, they bring in a brand new xbox to a kid being lucky enough to have had a donator buy it for them on Child's Play?

In the end I think this is still awesome by tl.net, but imo tl.net also missed a huge chance to really do a glorious deed that would have shone far beyond the gaming community. Maybe some people that don't have to do anything with gaming would have said "wow look at those gamers! they even care about pressing problems in the world!".

It doesnt mean this charity auction is worth nothing at all, but it could have been worth a lot more.

PS: Manis response disappoints me. It also proves me right in my decision to stay anonymous. Cus in the end, it doesn't matter if the majority of mods think its not ban-worthy, as long as I rub one mod the wrong way, I get banned. And I think I can safely assume that no mod would risk their status and start a fight within the mods crew to resurrect a banned user or a deleted thread which they think got banned or deleted unrightfully.

PPS: For all the people flaming me and calling me a retard, maybe you should stay out of a serious discussion like this, as your obviously too immature to contribute something meaningful.