Current Events > Are there any current altruistic people like Gandhi or Mother Teresa?

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Who are the major altruistic people these days?
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Obama
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josifrees posted...

Obama

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josifrees posted...

Obama

That is why he is taking after the Clintons and charging bank for speeches.
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>Mother Teresa
>altruistic
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inb4 some edgelord takes issue with Mother Teresa

oops too late.
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UncleBourbon33 posted...

inb4 some edgelord takes issue with Mother Teresa

oops too late.

what's the meme with Mother Theresa?
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Bill Gates
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Weeknd
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SuperNamekGod posted...

UncleBourbon33 posted...

inb4 some edgelord takes issue with Mother Teresa

oops too late.

what's the meme with Mother Theresa?

She did a lot of good, but she was kind of a bitch.
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TheJBD posted...

SuperNamekGod posted...

UncleBourbon33 posted...

inb4 some edgelord takes issue with Mother Teresa

oops too late.

what's the meme with Mother Theresa?

She did a lot of good, but she was kind of a bitch.

@TheJBD
What did she do that was bitchy?
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Kazi1212 posted...

>Mother Teresa
>altruistic

This, woman was like a half step from pure evil.
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josifrees posted...

Obama

maybe civ gandhi
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Black Pope Iseem

Nah, that was just a fad.
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that one deli llama guy
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Trump
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President Donald Trump
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SuperNamekGod posted...

TheJBD posted...

SuperNamekGod posted...

UncleBourbon33 posted...

inb4 some edgelord takes issue with Mother Teresa

oops too late.

what's the meme with Mother Theresa?

She did a lot of good, but she was kind of a bitch.

@TheJBD
What did she do that was bitchy?

She denied people pain medication because she thought pain made them closer to God.
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Mother Teresa was a was a hypocrite and fraud.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/mommie_dearest.html

Gandhi was a known racist who advocated for native Africans to submit to white rulers in South Africa.
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jumi posted...

SuperNamekGod posted...

TheJBD posted...

SuperNamekGod posted...

UncleBourbon33 posted...

inb4 some edgelord takes issue with Mother Teresa

oops too late.

what's the meme with Mother Theresa?

She did a lot of good, but she was kind of a bitch.

@TheJBD
What did she do that was bitchy?

She denied people pain medication because she thought pain made them closer to God.

That's fucked up.
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Colin Kaepernick

jumi posted...

She denied people pain medication because she thought pain made them closer to God.

She also took money from dictators and when she herself needed medical attention she flew to America to seek treatment with the money she collected. She never reinvested into her missionaries instead letting her patients slowly suffer and die from diseases such as AIDS, leprosy, and tuberculosis.
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This topic has certainly been enlightening. We should all be glad those motherfuckers and their kind are dead now.

We live in an age now where bad people can't as easily pretend to be good. So although it seems like things are worse it's kind of actually better this way.
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SpiralDrift posted...

This topic has certainly been enlightening. We should all be glad those motherfuckers and their kind are dead now.

We live in an age now where bad people can't as easily pretend to be good. So although it seems like things are worse it's kind of actually better this way.

Yes but people are still willing to vote for assholes.
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jumi posted...

SpiralDrift posted...

This topic has certainly been enlightening. We should all be glad those motherfuckers and their kind are dead now.

We live in an age now where bad people can't as easily pretend to be good. So although it seems like things are worse it's kind of actually better this way.

Yes but people are still willing to vote for assholes.

Yes, but the pretenses have been dropped. Honesty is often the first step toward fixing things.
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boxington posted...

Bill Gates

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Gandhi, with all of his faults, was still an incredible man and the epitome of altruism. Mother Theresa is a phony and a fraud, she didn't help half the people she's credited with helping, if she even actually ever helped a single person. Add to that that she forced people to go through unnecessary suffering while using "god's plan" as her excuse. She was a horrible person and the world would have been better off without her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJG-lgmPvYA

As for the question in the topic title, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates come to mind.
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iClockwork posted...

Mother Teresa was a was a hypocrite and fraud.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/mommie_dearest.html

Gandhi was a known racist who advocated for native Africans to submit to white rulers in South Africa.

Lol at these posters, nobody can be completely virtuous, if they happen to be, they would be a Messiah, like Jesus was, learn some bible.

crennigo posted...

iClockwork posted...

Mother Teresa was a was a hypocrite and fraud.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/mommie_dearest.html

Gandhi was a known racist who advocated for native Africans to submit to white rulers in South Africa.

Lol at these posters, nobody can be completely virtuous, if they happen to be, they would be a Messiah, like Jesus was, learn some bible.

You're right they can't be completely virtuous but they can simultaneously do one good thing and be held accountable for their misdeeds.

I strongly stand by the fact that Mother Teresa did more harm than good and her Sainthood is fraudulent and was more about positive publicity for the Catholic Church than contributions to mankind.
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crennigo posted...

iClockwork posted...

Mother Teresa was a was a hypocrite and fraud.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2003/10/mommie_dearest.html

Gandhi was a known racist who advocated for native Africans to submit to white rulers in South Africa.

Lol at these posters, nobody can be completely virtuous, if they happen to be, they would be a Messiah, like Jesus was, learn some bible.

Doesn't seem you read the link. The issue is that all of the criticism directed at Mother Theresa is for the things that she gained international fame for, so its hard for people to expose her as the fraud that she is since her supposed "good works" (which can be described as torture porn) have been coopted by so many other people and organizations that have a monetary reason to defend her.

Basically everything that she gets credit for has actually been proven to be not only unhelpful, but truly counter productive. That's not even getting into her fight against giving out free contraceptives in Africa. But I guess that can be filed away under the whole "No one is completely virtuous" argument.
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Bill Gates is the only one that I know of that puts in a lot of effort to put his money into humanitarian efforts. I think Warren Buffet does so too but he keeps quiet about it or the media doesn't focus on him all that much.
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Life Sympathy posted...

Bill Gates is the only one that I know of that puts in a lot of effort to put his money into humanitarian efforts. I think Warren Buffet does so too but he keeps quiet about it or the media doesn't focus on him all that much.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-buffett-charities/buffett-donates-3-17-billion-to-gates-charity-four-others-idUSKBN19V2QY

Warren Buffet is extremely charitable and plans to give away almost his entire fortune once he passes.

His home in Omaha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzFEs_9eNsU
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iClockwork posted...

Life Sympathy posted...

Bill Gates is the only one that I know of that puts in a lot of effort to put his money into humanitarian efforts. I think Warren Buffet does so too but he keeps quiet about it or the media doesn't focus on him all that much.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-buffett-charities/buffett-donates-3-17-billion-to-gates-charity-four-others-idUSKBN19V2QY

Warren Buffet is extremely charitable and plans to give away almost his entire fortune once he passes.

His home in Omaha.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzFEs_9eNsU

And he drives a plain car. And I mean literally drives it, as opposed to having a chauffeur like most old rich dudes. He's like the wealthiest man in history who doesn't have a greedy bone in his body.
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julian assange
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Both Mother Teresa and Gandhi are actually pretty controversial outside their particular social groups. Gandhi, in particular, was a strong supporter of segregation and held some really racist ideas, and was also rumored to be a pretty bad pervert.

Dash_Harber posted...

Both Mother Teresa and Gandhi are actually pretty controversial outside their particular social groups. Gandhi, in particular, was a strong supporter of segregation and held some really racist ideas, and was also rumored to be a pretty bad pervert.

Well he slept naked with young women, but that was to test himself and his resolve. Apparently he never actually gave in to lust, though Idk how accurate that actually is.

In my eyes, Gandhi did far more good than Mother Theresa and wasn't guilty of nearly as much as her as well.
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nicklebro posted...

In my eyes, Gandhi did far more good than Mother Theresa and wasn't guilty of nearly as much as her as well.

I'd agree, but he still had a lot of flaws like his views on race.

Dash_Harber posted...

nicklebro posted...

In my eyes, Gandhi did far more good than Mother Theresa and wasn't guilty of nearly as much as her as well.

I'd agree, but he still had a lot of flaws like his views on race.

Oh of course. Everyone has flaws. But looking at their impact on the world rather than who they were internally (which is impossible to determine accurately) and Gandhi had a massively positive impact on the world whereas Mother Theresa was a merchant of suffering and was praised for it.
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nicklebro posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

nicklebro posted...

In my eyes, Gandhi did far more good than Mother Theresa and wasn't guilty of nearly as much as her as well.

I'd agree, but he still had a lot of flaws like his views on race.

Oh of course. Everyone has flaws. But looking at their impact on the world rather than who they were internally (which is impossible to determine accurately) and Gandhi had a massively positive impact on the world whereas Mother Theresa was a merchant of suffering and was praised for it.

I don't know about the massive impact on the world. He is incredibly important to Indian history, but his movement didn't quite spread worldwide, at least not how he envisioned it.

However, those flaws are exactly the reason we shouldn't diefy important historical figures.

Dash_Harber posted...

I don't know about the massive impact on the world. He is incredibly important to Indian history, but his movement didn't quite spread worldwide, at least not how he envisioned it.

However, those flaws are exactly the reason we shouldn't diefy important historical figures.

Well his impact on India had worldwide reverberations. And how his image inspired other people to stand up to global powers in the name of what's right is another way he had a global impact.
But you're definitely right and I agree with your post.
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I was gonna say Edhi but I forgot a he died a few years ago

Still, it's not that long ago <_<

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Sattar_Edhi
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Enlightening
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Insert Gandhi Nukes Joke Here.
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Jimmy Carter

If Gandhi was still alive he'd be getting #metoo'd into oblivion tbqh
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