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Article: Suspicion lingers about giving to good cause
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- July 8, 2009
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It is too easy to assume that donations from social entrepreneurs
are driven by all the wrong motives, writes SARAH CAREY .
THERE'S NOTHING that depresses me more than cynicism. I can be
harsh, but it tends to come from anger or disappointment. Cynicism
begets a kind of harshness that is deeply destructive to a person
and a society. The sad thing is that cynics sound authoritative, so
they get a good audience. Sometimes that's because they're right.
Possessing the insight to divine base motives behind outward
goodness is a useful trait. I've often been distressed and vaguely
humiliated to discover someone I thought was doing good was simply
playing to an agenda I'd failed to see. Despite ...