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Offering an incentive for a charitable act is not right because the definition of charity is “The voluntary giving of help”. When given an incentive saying “If you donate this you will get this” where is the VOLUNTARY in this situation. It becomes an act where you will only donate if you know that you get something in return and that isn’t volunteering. Previously during the school year there was a Tsunami in the Philippines, people were asked to donate money for a good cause. Our principal Mr. Jones decided that we as a school should help. He offered us the incentive that whoever donated a dollar would be rewarded a dress down day. I had already planned to donate for the cause and when I had heard of this “reward” it kind of rubbed me the wrong way. I felt as though we should not be rewarded for doing something out of the kindness of our hearts. It sends the wrong message to children basically saying you don’t have to donate but if you do we will reward you. That teaches children the wrong meaning of Voluntary or Donation. When it comes to in school in the exchange for grades In...

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