President’s Star Charity Show - is there a need for artistes to perform stunts to milk the public’s compassion for more generous donations?

Let's just start with a question: Would you donate to charity?

If your response was an immediate, unequivocal 'yes', then what is the point of the series of performances during every charity show? Would there even be a need to have charity shows in the first place? Looking from a cynical perspective, I believe that many of us need to be bribed into making donations. We need to question our morals: What is the ulterior motive of the artiste's performances? Let us go back to the basics, what is the definition of charity? I believe that we can skip most of the fluff and the definitions and summarise it into a few word. Charity is compassion. It should be spontaneous, not something coaxed out of you.

I believe that these performances should be removed, lest, we are instilling in the younger generations false values. One might dispute, "NO! These are an absoute must! Without them, charity shows would be dead for!" If that is so, charity events are running on a distorted set of values.

Some might argue that after the NKF scandal, one might begin to have a stingy mindset and that all these life-risking events are to garner support for charity. However, wouldn't that equate to us sympathising the artistes instead? All these events should be rid off. Appealing to our inner compassion, we should not draw sweeping generalisations, and arrive at an uncategorical decision stating that all donations made to charity organisation end up in the pockets of others.
No, we should move along and not get swept away by a tide of the past.

On the other hand, one must take into consideration. If we were to hold these charity shows, and there were not to be any performances, what should be held instead? Personally, I can't come up with any answer. However, I have ended up wth a rather risky solution. We can stop airing charity shows, nd allow people to donate t charity organisations by thir own free will.

At the end of the day, would you want to look at the staggering figures and know that those numbers have no actual representation of our compassion? Eventually, we would need to correct that. Why not start now?