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If you ran a charity and a man offered you money he had obtained by selling the gold teeth from people he had murdered, would you accept it on the grounds that you hadn't killed anyone?
Yes. Then turn his ass in. But if i ran a charity, we'd be far more concerned with the good being worked than the evil we may or may not benefit from.

But that's a little extreme, no? In this case, no laws have been broken. The guy legally participated in a legal lottery and made a charitable donation to a legally recognized charity. He's even been donating to them for 40 years, so it's sincere, rather than a sudden tax dodge.

Greenpeace holds the US Navy in incredible contempt for nuclear power, nuclear weapons, and general waste disposal methods. But they've never, ever, turned down donations from Sailors in the Combined Federal Campaign. Nor has anyone else, to my knowledge, turned down such donation despite the fact that someone holds the US, or the US Military, in such contempt.

I don't believe money is tainted. Even 'blood money' is easy enough to launder, with just a little bleach and no fabric softener, and spends just as well. Even better, if the bank knows you want to get rid of it. What's tainted is people, and the actions they take, and decisions they make. If the guy with money wants to help a charity, that's a plus. If he wants to save on taxes and is just 'using' a charity, that's still a plus for the charity.

This guy cannot possibly trace each and every donation, to be sure they are not getting a cut from a lottery small win, a drug deal, a tip from waiting a table for a gangster, the swear-bucket Mac keeps at the end of the bar, or money i just 'found' at work when the soda machine tipped over and felt guilty about keeping. So turning down the big donation for a small point of pride, i find distasteful.



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