The Charitable Act

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Charitable acts serve a purpose in society to aid a cause that will range from helping the poor to curing the ill. Restricting people to a charitable act would also restrict these people receiving the needs that they so desperately need. This defeats the purpose of having a charity. Having the incentive to commit charitable acts is to push people to contribute to society. Therefore, I believe, to better the society, that incentives to charitable acts are ethical. Incentives are only there to provide a purpose for a non-rewarding act; they are not there to demean the ethical value of it. In fact, incentives for charity becomes a reason for people to add to charity. It allows people serve a larger purpose in the grander scheme of society where people are in dire need of food and more. It will help bring charity part of societies social norm. In retrospect, it will bring more people to provide to charity and incentives will no longer be a necessity, but more of a bonus. Charity, is known to society, as a good cause and donating to it will make you seem like a greater person. So why would donating to a good cause become unethical if you are …show more content…

However, there is ethical incentive, such as Signature School providing a requirement for twenty-five hours each year. While this seems atypical of an incentive as it is a requirement to graduate, a further insight will reveal that the incentive is indirectly influencing so that you stay at the school. Other forms of ethical incentive may include peer pressure, pressuring you into to spend time at the nursing home because your friends will be there, and donating to End Polio Now, an organization devoted to end polio now, to receive a license plate signifying your contribution. In almost all situations incentive can be viewed as

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