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Originally Posted by ratbastid
Okay, and I'm saying: there's clearly something they wanted out of it. We can see that because, having not gotten what they wanted, they're now all upset. That makes it not generosity, but investment.
I'm not saying it was a bad thing to do or that they're not generous, good people. I AM saying that we human beings are weird about our motivations a lot of the time.
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Was the family legally required to attend the church, or legally required to stay in the home for a certain period of time? Were they legally required to do anything in return for the house?
No.
Gratitude is obviously a given, but that's hardly a legally binding condition.
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I don't agree with this, really. I don't EXPECT gratitude for anything. It's nice when it happens. When it doesn't *shrug*. Also, if the family was destitute, they did donate the $88,000 to victims of Katrina... themselves! Why is that so different?
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Wtf? If you gave someone a $75K house, you wouldn't expect gratitude for it??
So if you gave me a hundred bucks, and all I said was, "Damn right bitch, you better give me that fucking money," you wouldn't be at least annoyed that I didn't say thanks??