Naked Pastor posted this video the other day and some of his uncomfortable thoughts about it. He believes that it in some way is "marketing compassion." I liked it, but he felt something wrong in that it took slick marketing by a handsome guy in a suit to awaken people's compassion. Shouldn't we already feel it? I guess we should. We should naturally care about the downtrodden, hurt, weak, and poor. I hear what he's saying. But sadly we often forget or marginalize them and maybe we need a "hook" to reawaken our hearts. What do you think of the video? I suppose this kind of video (or say a World Vision/Compassion Canada TV commercial showing starving children) is an attempt at "manipulating" a compassionate response out of people. Is it wrong if the motive is good? Where are the boundaries (if any)? These are the questions going through my mind today.
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it made the rounds in my mind too. I love it actually. Blogged about it today... i'd be curious your thoughts about where my mind ended up
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Whenever a video is made about a topic, regardless of what that topic is, you are presenting a viewpoint that you wish your viewers to agree with. If I do a video about how much fun volleyball is, I am marketing the game to the viewer, no matter what style I may choose to shoot the video in. I wouldn't make a video about volleyball being fun if I didn't want others to watch it and share my opinion.
I think sometimes that people don't realize what they would really be missing if they were not healthy. All that business guy did was put blindness in perspective for passers by. I thought it was great! If people could see things from that perspective more often, I wonder if we'd be more grateful for what we have and more compassionate to those who don't have those things.
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