Are those commercials with the starving children fair to show to us?

Question

Don't they make you sad? I think relyin on this emotional apeal is cheap but i know some ppl need help. do u think it is a good tactic or that it is helpful or could they show other images or info that would be more beneficial to the children and to gettin info out?

Answer 1

Yes they do rely on emotions in order to get donations - if they didn't then they wouldn't get a penny. People have to be moved in order to donate to these charities, what better way than to show the plight these people are in - even if it is dressed up a little. I hardly think the emotions of the people watching should matter compared to the misery that these people go through every day.

Answer 2

i think showing those images of starving children is the best way to swiftly get into our heads that there are people out there living in this way, starving .. if we were just shown facts it would be harder to believe, but because we have the evidence shown hard in images.. it's much more believable.
and I don't think it's cheap at all, we're getting shown that these people need help.

Answer 3

People living the typical bourgeois lifestyle are so disconnected and alienated from common drudgery, suffering, and tragedy, that it requires dramatic displays like those commercials to wake them up.

I can't suggest anything more effective to wake someone up to seriously, worldly problems.

Answer 4

Emotions sell. Why do you think the Dems are puppeteering Cindy Sheehan all over the country?

Answer 5

if you say someone is dying to me I'll say so what. If you show me someone's dying it'll have a greater impact.

Answer 6

People need to be shocked or they'll do nothing.

Answer 7

They wouldn't get feed otherwise.