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Originally Posted by GrifBot
Exactly what I'm getting at. Talk isn't good enough in modern day society. Talk is awareness. Talk won't get us anywhere. Actions will always speak louder than words, as many have said time and time again.
It could also be argued that we are killing one dragon and feeding another. (Dragons representing problems, destroying the problem of ALS, but making the problem of people dying of unclean water worse)
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The "Ice Bucket Challenge" simply latched into the "viral-ness" of other "challenges" going around on social media (ex. eat a spoonful of cinnamon, chug any of a large selection of drinks, etc.).
The Challenge puts a lot of eyes and talk around the issue, and guess what? Talk IS good enough in modern day society and the era of social media. Even if only 0.1% of the people who see these videos will donate, ALS research will make a lot of money. (Hint: This is how free-to-play games like Candy Crush Saga and the like made so much money.)
Your other argument is trying to change the topic, but I'm willing to wager the amount of water thrown over heads for the Challenge (which is reentering the watershed anyway) is a small small fraction of the overall water supply of any city that a Challenge participant lives in (the only reasonable frame of reference in which to make that particular argument).