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Comment on MTGAP 2.0 and 3.5 Now Available by evelyn

evelyn — Thu, 16 May 2013 04:35:30 +0000

Thank you for giving us this. Will try it now.

Comment on Useless Thought Experiments by yboris

yboris — Thu, 09 May 2013 20:35:54 +0000

Reblogged this on YBoris.

Comment on Make-A-Wish Foundation Makes the World a Worse Place by Joe

Joe — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:05:28 +0000

Do you have children? I seriously doubt you do because you cannot tell me that if you did and your child had a life threatening illness that you would not do everything in your power to make them have an amazing life experiences after all the terrible things that child has to endure to fight for his/her life. Medicine is not the only way to heal. Make a Wish does not claim to be a charity that is attempting to cure or fight a disease. It is in the business of enhancing LIFE. Those few days on a Make A Wish trip may be the BEST and last memories a family makes with their child.

Comment on Make-A-Wish Foundation Makes the World a Worse Place by Liz

Liz — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:25:09 +0000

This article just makes me sick to my stomach….Really????? I have a 4 yr old daughter that has had 4 heart surgeries and a diaphragm surgery due to complications. My daughter, too, will have surgeries for the rest of her life….forever….she will have test after test after test…FOREVER! And as Shawn said the disease is greatly underfunded. But this author is an idiot. MAW is an amazing organization that doesn’t have a mission to find cures or save the hungry or find cures for malaria. They are only interested in allowing a child to have an incredibly awesome wish come true that may not happen otherwise! The child (and family) get to momentarily forget about all the horrible bad things happening to them and have fun! That is it.
To Michael Dickens: I will keep you in my prayers that nothing bad ever happens to someone in your family that could possibly make them eligible for a wish. And so you know, no child is turned down for a wish that is eligible (and it doesn’t matter if you make $20,000/yr or $200,000/yr). “They didn’t solve any real problems or alleviate any long-term suffering.” The mission isn’t to solve any problems….it is to allow the child to temporarily “forget” about the disease they have. You should really stick to topics that you know at least a little bit about!
This article is wrong in so many ways…I hope anyone reading will realize that the author has no idea what he is really talking about and is just having a dumb rant about something with 0 knowledge! He has not walked in the shoes of the families that receive a wish! (my daughter will have her wish granted in November!) Sad that some people are like that…

THANK YOU MAKE A WISH FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR MANY CHILDREN TO MAKE THEM FEEL LIKE THEY ARE “NORMAL” AND TO GIVE FAMILIES THE OPPORTUNITY TO THROW WORRY OUT THE WINDOW FOR A SHORT TIME

Comment on Why Utilitarianism? by Luke

Luke — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:27:03 +0000

Okay. I now understand your argument.

Comment on Why Utilitarianism? by Michael Dickens

Michael Dickens — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 22:16:00 +0000

I pretty much agree with your rephrasing, except for this point:

Good and bad are personal conceptions

This isn't exactly what I meant. Good and bad are objective; they should not differ from person to person. (If person A believes that something is good and person B believes that it is bad, someone must be wrong.) However, good and bad do rely on subjective preferences; without such preferences, good and bad would not exist.

Comment on Why Utilitarianism? by LP

LP — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:02:16 +0000

I enjoyed the essay.
For clarification’s sake, could your argument be written thus:
(1) The purpose of morality is to determine what is good and bad. Good things should be encouraged and bad things should be avoided. {I’ve just made this a bit more precise, right?}
(2) Good and bad are personal conceptions based on the individual preferences of particular wills. (“will”: a being with interests) {I’ve moved this from a statement about the author to a statement about wills in general. Is this what you were implying?)
(3) Multiple wills exist, not all of which are my own. Each will’s interests deserve consideration when assessing whether an action should be taken (in particular, those interests that are relevant to the action in question).
(4) When considering which actions should be taken, interests hold value in proportion to their intensity.

Comment on Make-A-Wish Foundation Makes the World a Worse Place by Michael Dickens

Michael Dickens — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:39:30 +0000

Please refrain from insulting other commenters. Although I appreciate hearing from you, if you post any other comments containing insults, I will edit or delete them.

Comment on Make-A-Wish Foundation Makes the World a Worse Place by Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:41:46 +0000

Your a pompous ass, mchen444@gmail.com. You say, you read stories about how they get to go to Hawaii, or this or THAT? Well, as a Parent of a child that might not see the next year of her life, or the next 15 years, we all SUFFER. Most of us that have a child that has LIFE THREATENING ILLNESSES, give up everything for our CHILD. There siblings SUFFER, in more than one way. They don’t get to see there sick brother/sister, do the things they get to with them. Parents are most of the time at there bedside, unless another family member is there to help them. I am a father of 5 children which one has CHD.the most severe type of child killer that there is. I can’t tell you the hours and day, and weeks, and months we have spent to away from our other 5 children, with dealing with many health issues she has besides CHD.. So basically your saying in this COMMENTS, a little GIRL and her siblings, shouldn’t get the chance to go to DISNEY, where she is able to see something that she otherwise wouldn’t be able to,because she has something that was “FIXED” in your opinion. You sir/mam, are a total pompous ass, for saying something like that. That she shouldn’t be able to share that with her brother’s and sister, That the “FAMILY” could have done it on there own, with MILLIONS already out of there pocket for the REST of there LIFE, for saving there child to live another day, week, month year? I hope and Pry you will never have to go thru what we have to, as well as MANY other families, no matter, if it is CHD, Cancer, or some other LIFE threatening DISEASE. Uninformed people shouldn’t have to the right to speak there mind when they clearly don’t know what they are talking about.

Comment on Make-A-Wish Foundation Makes the World a Worse Place by Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:25:32 +0000

I hate to tell you this, but you seem to have a mis conception of what is really going on! Try having a child born with the worst disease possible. Congenital Heart Disease. (CHD), more children are born with this disease, and die from it than all of the cancer’s combined including and not limited to Downs Syndrome. It sickens me to see you have taking something so special and turned it as if MAKE A WISH is something terrible. Having a child that has CHD, and has endured 3 surgeries and she is only 3 years old, I ask for GOD to forgive your insight of negativity in your BLOG. She will have to have Surgeries all her life just to live another day. She will not have a so called NORMAL life. How I do feel, for those in other COUNTRIES that, have to deal with things, and need help, there are tons that donate and help those other countries. AS far as having people donate to research, CANCER is so over funded, and has more money in it to help that is is a far cry to someone born with CHD. One in 100 children, ( some areas are far worse more like 10 out of 100) are born with some kind of heart normality. Cancer research gets BILLIONS a year in grants, and have pretty much unlimited research at there disposal. No I am not down playing cancer by any means, however, I feel that yes a lot more should go to CHD research. I will say this on top of it all, It really saddens me to hear of a child no matter what disease, has earned there wings. I think that MAKE A WISH is something that comes from something special in peoples hearts and soul’s. Having a child granted something they might not ever be able to do, see, or feel, is a feeling not many will ever experience. Even it if it for a brief moment, words will never describe that feeling. Many families do not have the means to do something like MAKE a WISH can. There are some that can’t but have no clue how to do this, as they are 24/7 365 care takers of there child that might not live to see another day. Your BLOG is not forth right. Until you walk a few million miles in the families, shoes as we have to then you will never comprehend, what and how we feel day to day. I wish that you would have a change of heart, and actually instead of JUDGING be more involved in what is really happening. More children with CHD will never get a Wish Granted, as most do not live to see there 1st birthday, and even more don’t make it to there 2nd. I forgive you for your comments, as GOD will and DID forgive you for your comments. God Bess you Sir.