Quote Originally Posted by Ayerc View Post
I have no idea where you're coming from. You suggested donating to the Japanese Red Cross, so did I. I wasn't even responding to you in my post, so get off your high horse.
It seemed like you responding directly to me. But seeing as you aren't attempting to be civil, you're not going to get an apology.

Unless you have some sort of inside knowledge as to where charities spend their money, then get over yourself. Of course people should research where their donations will go, I never said, or implied, anything to the contrary.
Yeah, it's called look at the financial records they are required to release. Not exactly inside, but shows that not nearly all the money donated goes to the people they are supposedly accepting money for. Of course, you need to have some knowledge of finance and possibly accounting to decipher the records, so I don't blame the average person for not understanding them... which is why I am warning them. Are you with one of these organizations or something? Why are you being so aggressive?

And just because S-E could donate directly to the JSDF doesn't mean they will. Where do you think more corruption lies, in organizations like the Red Cross, or corporate entities? I'm not saying that S-E is that kind of company, but I'll take my chances donating to a humanitarian organization before I ever trust a corporate entity to do the right thing.
The RC and the other organizations ARE corporate entities. The only difference is that non-profits are not allowed to distribute earnings... any surplus has to be reinvested into the company. The way many of the non-profits operate is that they pay their upper management HUGE salaries.

If SE did start accepting donations in the forms of paying for FFXIV, claimed they would donate the money to JSDF, and lied about it... that would create a huge lawsuit issue. But I like how you suggest that a company willing to turn off it's A/C and work in less comfortable conditions for the sake of helping the TRAGEDY in Japan would be corrupt and be dishonest with our money should they offer it. Very mature of you.