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Why aren't the people who are protesting the Olympics using their time and their money more productively?

Why don't they give to the homeless or to any other charity the time they are spending and the money they spent (on signage, costumes and other things)? Isn't there hypocrisy inherent in the protesters' message?

Update:

S and RatZ, I am not assuming that protesting is all that the protesters do. I am only referring to the time and the money spent *while* protesting. Protesting may be productive. Too, the Olympic games may be productive. The protesters are protesting the productivity of the Olympics, but this position is only reasonable with a very narrow analysis of the games and their benefits. The same narrow analysis of their protests makes them also look unproductive.

Update 2:

Royman62, I am not protesting the Olympics for being unproductive. I don't agree with the protesters and I think their grievance with the Olympics is as applicable to themselves as to the games. I am only noting the contradiction.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    coz there boring

  • 1 decade ago

    Why do you assume that protesting is the only thing they do? I know of many protesters that either live in or work/volunteer at the DTES. In the march for the murdered and missing women last Sunday, for example, I saw many many faces that I had seen at anti-olympic demonstrations too.

    In the majority, it's people that know and deeply care about the community. You just don't see them on TV when they are doing their silent work. Why deny them the right to talk (loudly) about the problems they see all the time?

    If you manage to approach someone in a friendly manner, you might get to talk to one of them and find out what it's all about. Sadly, just hearing the chants from afar or watching the news rarely gets the whole message across.

  • 1 decade ago

    This question makes no sense. Why are you on the internet posting a question on Yahoo Answers instead of using your time and money more productively? Maybe some of them do give to the homeless, you don't know. Do you? Why do people who use their time and money to fight homelessness. Everyone has their own values and gets to decide for themselves what to stand up and fight for. Try to understand where they are coming from. Maybe you should look up the word hypocrisy first.

  • 1 decade ago

    Gotta agree with your hypocrisy statement there; but for those people to use both their time and their money productively would mean that they would be forced into actually living a life!

    They can't have that now can they?

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  • Raatz
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    I'm pretty sure they ARE doing that as well. Give me a break.

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