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Re: ALS Bucket Challenge, CD everyone is challenged

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Originally Posted by Chinmay View Post
How would it have gone viral? and how would we all know about it it? without the challenge. We have the luxury now that it has gone viral to not do the challenge and critique it. If people hadn't done it and posted all over social media, I wouldnt know about ALS. Simple as that.
You're right - I should have added a 'by now' in there somewhere. It's already gone viral, we all know what it is, now maybe it's time to stop with the water dumping and move to just talking about ALS. I like your thoughts about a cup of water, though. That's a bit less extreme. Still wasteful, and I think some people in developed countries don't quite see what a charmed life we live as compared to other regions- but I won't get into that right now.

(Please note, I'm talking in my post about the people who just post the water-dump without any mention of what ALS is, how to donate, or anything. That's the slacktivist side of this that's killing me. Some people are just throwing water on themselves without any demonstrated knowledge of why.)

Maybe it's my background with family in medicine, but I truly didn't think there were people out there who didn't know what some of these major diseases are. TIL, or something like that. My apologies.
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