Quote Originally Posted by Seraphaw View Post
25$ can feed a person for weeks in lesser developed countries, so if your own life is full of lush and luxury then why not help someone else out? I'm sure it will help them in a meaningful way. Or you know, you can have a sparkly digital horse.
Because if I were going to help someone out it would be someone in my own country first, and I pay taxes so I don't do charity.

That's by-the-by though, as giving $25 to charity still isn't a pragmatic use of the money since it isn't a more practical use of $25 than buying the steed in the case a person has $25 to spend on any extraneous consumption and I would argue that, when taking into account utility of enjoyment and the properties of transativity, the $25 being spent on the steed is a much more practical use of it to me than giving it to some charity to be wasted on "administrative fees"