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A child life is probably worth less than $1000, rather than that new TV I can assure you the money to an average charity will save a childs life.
Yet throw in Batman and a whole lot of Redditors and we've saved the world.
Hey it's better than a normal street parade / pissing it up at a pub. But lets get a grip on reality.
I really felt some strong emotions while reading through this. It's amazing. The news spot just has to the the cherry on top. So happy for this kid that he had an awesome day. It does restore some faith in humanity to see things like this. ...however... I hate myself for being the contrarian in this case but as a South African and having worked with one or two NGOs that work with sick people in general, including kid…
Make-A-Wish Foundation, doing things that don't scale :P
Your comment reminded me of one famous quote from the ring, the yews gave Oskar Schindler[1]: "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire."
Some people (ok, a lot of people) just made the miserable life of one little child a lot better. And they made their own lifes better, by showing what can be accomplished together. What is so bad in that, that it warrants these snarky remarks here on HN? That I really do not understand.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Schindler#After_the_war
I really felt some strong emotions while reading through this. It's amazing. The news spot just has to the the cherry on top. So happy for this kid that he had an awesome day. It does restore some faith in humanity to see things like this. ...however... I hate myself for being the contrarian in this case but as a South African and having worked with one or two NGOs that work with sick people in general, including kid…
The story is not just heartwarming it has served number of purposes. I got to know more about the disease, the organizations involved and most importantly it has motivated me to give money from my pocket to beat the real nemesis of that young batkid.
I really felt some strong emotions while reading through this. It's amazing. The news spot just has to the the cherry on top. So happy for this kid that he had an awesome day. It does restore some faith in humanity to see things like this. ...however... I hate myself for being the contrarian in this case but as a South African and having worked with one or two NGOs that work with sick people in general, including kid…
My point is, this is hands down an act of kindness by an entire city. There isn't an evil plot behind it.
This makes me very happy, and it should make you happy too.
I suspect the kid would have been just as happy running around a yard or his block with "batman" for a whole afternoon.
It seems like he didn't even have enough time to take in each event.
Still, I hope it gives him great memories instead of being ill and in the hospital.
Make-A-Wish Foundation, doing things that don't scale :P
Why does everything has to scale? Why can a good deed not go unpunished (like in some comments here)? Your comment reminded me of one famous quote from the ring, the yews gave Oskar Schindler[1]: "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." Some people (ok, a lot of people) just made the miserable life of one little child a lot better. And they made their own lifes better, by showing what can be accomplished toge…
I don't think the GP is making a value judgement on the fact that Make A Wish often does things that do not scale. Rather I took it as a way to partially describe the Make A Wish organization in the language used to describe startups.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bruce Wayne had it covered.
If that's true then: awesome.
From some Googling, a WSJ story says about the police:
"It just cost us our time. We told the guys prior that they were not going to make overtime, the ones who chose to hang around it was more of having your heart in the right place. Obviously it was necessary to put police resources into it, that happens all over major cities all the time, but this was not publicly funded."
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2013/11/15/police-chief-greg-...