Charity Argument

To some degree, money for charity, can be raised however and whenever the opportunity comes. Schools have different charity events throughout the school years where they either attend special events, gather supplies, or go door to door and collect funds. Usually the group, participant and or the entire school gets a reward for exceedingly collecting funds that the school has set as a goal. Giving incentives for participating or exceeding in collecting funds for a charity events is unethical to some extent. Though ethics shouldn't be a factor to collecting and attending charity events. It doesn't matter how you collect the funds or why you attend the event. It only matters whether you reached your goal or not. It only matters to get enough funds to support the cause. If giving incentives to increase how many people attend the event to help the cause then ethics shouldn't matter. In Milwaukie High School an in school store sells merchandise to support breast cancer awareness. The way they sell merchandise, they make the merchandise humours. The store sells pink mustaches to appeal to a type of student. The pink mustaches are very inappropriate and unethical to sell due to the fact that most diagnosed with cancer will go through a chemotherapy, causing them to lose all their hair. The pink mustaches could be seen as a mocking approach rather than a supportive one.
Most students buy other merchandise either because most of their peers have bought some apparel to wear during the time period this event is taking place. They want to fit in with other people and buy the apparel only to be a part of the crowd and think not of the cause and only for themselves. This of course is unethical, but that is irrelevant. The high school is doing its job by collecting the funds. In all honest giving an individual, group, or the whole people who attended the event, a reward for doing something because they get a benefit rather than helping the cause. This is