Charity is about helping others. Charitable donations should be made with the idea in mind that others will benefit from the donations that one is making. However this does not mean that it is ethically wrong for incentives to be offered in exchange for charitable acts. While many argue that it is unethical to offer incentives for charity, I disagree. Offering incentives for charity is not unethical, and it does not under mind the morality behind being charitable. Offering incentives for charitable donations rewards and congratulates those to go out of their way to help.
Just because someone receives an incentive for their charitable act does not make it any less meaningful. The point behind charity is giving to those that need help, and if an incentive helps us give
...to those that need it, then charities should be able to offer incentives without being criticized about the ethics of the incentive. The incentives help to get those who wouldn’t normally give an opportunity to give and to help out. The incentives are a way to catch the attention of people who can give, and then reward them for doing so.
Even people who are charitable people, like to gain things back for what they give, everyone likes incentives. Incentives are merely a way to reward and to give to good people who give to others. This year during the food drive at my school ASB added their own incentive to try and get more people to give. For every 5 cans of food that a person brings to the food drive, they get to make 1 wish. ASB said that they would do the best to
make the wish come true, and to grant as many wishes as possible. Because of the added incentive, many people brought cans of food in to the food drive, and many people brought in many more that 5 cans.
These cans of food went to much deserving and needing families in the area. As a school we were able to beat our goal for the number of cans we wanted to donate, and to beat our rival school in their food drive. The added incentive helped to make this possible, but it did not take away or diminish the value of the donations that the students and staff made. It can be argued, that it would be ideal that charitable donations where made only because it’s a good thing to do, and not for personal gain from dditional incentives, but in reality, incentives help to get more charity for organizations than would otherwise be gained. In reality many people would not donate to charity as often if there were no incentives in it for them. Honestly, the incentives cause more people to donate to charity. The idea of charity is to help others. I think that if some incentives help to gain charitable donations, then it is better than having less charitable donations. The idea of charity is to help people and more people can be helped with more donations.
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