Actually the BCCI are a group of people so it is far easier for them to donate a lot more money. As I said before I think it is just a cheap publicity stunt. Oh and with all the money donated to the victims of the London Bombings, did you see English members pressuring (because that is what you are doing) the rest of the forum to donate money? Of course not. People are allowed to have their opinion, you just want to bloody well bash people around the head with your self-righteousness
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I am not pressuring anyone to donate. Where did you get that? I myself have not donated any money, so why the hell would I pressure anyone else to do so? So there goes that theory and the whole comparison to the London bombings. Maybe you are having troubles comprehending my usage of the word "you"...?
Of course you are entitled to your opinion, I'm just pointing out why
I think your opinion of BCCI's donation is simply a reflection of the image you hold of the BCCI and not their actual act of benevolence. It is also
my opinion that no one has a moral right to criticize someone's gesture of benevolence in a situation like this, especially when they have not made any similar gesture. By the way, this does not mean that I am pressuring you to donate. It means what it is: I think it's in extremely poor taste to criticize someone for doing something good.
And the BCCI is not a group of people, it is an organization with board members and an official hierarchy. It's not as if everyone has personal assets sitting around in the BCCI and can stand up and say, "Oh, I'll put US$100,000 of my $10mil forward into the victims grant."
And finally, you don't seem to have any responses for my main arguments, and instead seem intent on proving that I am somehow pressuring people to donate. What do you have to say about:
(1) The fact that the BCCI could have easily ignored the need for raising money and pushed the onus onto their players to follow the lead from the English cricketers.
(2) The fact that these donations are going to go a long way in easing the financial burden of the victims.
I especially stress (2)... the families of the injured would greatly appreciate any financial help and would certainly not think of the BCCI's donations as a "cheap publicity stunt".
EDIT: It's fun and popular to bash the BCCI. This was evident in a recent thread regarding cricketing relations with Sri Lanka, where everyone jumped on the hatewagon without even checking the sources or the facts. The truth does not matter when the time comes to bash the BCCI!