Heaven forbid people would take the time to do something more effective for this worthy cause, like maybe everybody write a letter to your congressmen/women, CEO's, or what have you . Believe me, the silence thing is going to turn more people off to the cause and be much less effective than my suggestion, because A) not talking for a whole day is a much more radical idea than mailing a letter, and B) if a thousand people said something to ONE person who actually cared and could do something about it, it would be much more effective than a million people saying nothing to everybody. Let's make this into a math problem:
y=px
A and B are Effectiveness (with respect to the equation name), p is participants, and x is non-participants.
EQUATION A:
A=0x
lim x->infinity
(or for the more mathematically challenged, y=0(infinity))
EQUATION B:
B=p1
lim p->infinity
(again, for the math challenged, y=(infinity)1)
Solution: A<B
Enter "The Shawshank Redemption." Andy Dufresne wants a bigger budget for the prison library. Spoiler:
Does he get it by not saying anything??? No. He gets it by sending letter after letter to his Congressmen. Consider.
And always remember:
