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Originally Posted by GrifBot
Food is food. Food is useful, as I am sure many of you will agree. Food feeds you. Food is not what you post on social media to get a lot of attention (well, some people do, but those are very interesting people). Dousing yourself with a bucket full of ice cold water is used to get attention, not to feed yourself. Water is something that should be used not as a way to get attention in a silly scheme, but to cure your thirst. Not once have I ever said that we shouldn't try and save water other ways. But those other ways have become the way of life, a necessity. Water to bathe yourself. Water to brush your teeth. Should water be a way of attention too? Because attention really shouldn't be a way of life. Use water usefully, at least usefully in the context of the modern day society.
Plus, if you are desperate to partake in the challenge, wait till the winter and dump an all natural bucket of water over your head. Or snow.
#snowbucketchallenge
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The point of dousing oneself with water is to get attention. That's the entire point of this ALS campaign.
I had not heard of ALS until I heard about the challenge. I agree that it does waste water, but worrying about such trivial matters raises an interesting point:
Survivors of ALS will use a lot of water. By dumping buckets of water, we are raising awareness to raise money to find a cure for ALS. Considerably less water will be dumped in buckets than surivors of ALS will consume. And to me, I think that it's okay to use a bit of extra water so that these people can live.
Essentially, wasting a few buckets of water are the smallest concern people can have with this campaign.
Food for thought.