The Evil of Charity

Wow, --M, nice find!

I've been so distracted by their craziness and pettiness that I've completely neglected to notice that Freepers' asshole quotient has been going through the roof! It seems in their rage against entitlement America, Freepers now hate all charity.

A kid loses his kickass Lego set and writes a letter to Lego about it. The company responds with a sweet letter and a replacement. This has gone viral, so it was clearly a good investment on Lego's part. Everybody wins?

bgill has never been a child.!

The kid was told not to take it. The kid disobeyed his parents. The kid lost it. Dad teaches kid doesn't have to face consequences or learn responsibility. Enough of these "good deeds" from companies and the rest of us have to pay for it. This FReeper has had enough of all this gimme, gimme, gimme.

You don't think the initial loss was crappy enough? Or that kids can only learn via pain? What an asshole!

BipolarBob knows this child has had no consequences.

This is so heartwarming that the boy is being taught “entitlement” mentality at this age. A bonus is the no bad consequences for bad choices. We have ourselves a Democrat in the making.

Taking initiative? Personally mitigating one's mistakes? The value of personal communication? None of those lessons are capitalism, so fuck 'em!

Opinionated Blowhard is pretty sure Lego had the kid under surveillance:

This story is actually a horrible story. The kid took his toy to the store and lost it. Now he wants another one for free. He’s a cute, blond-haired, blue-eyed kid and so everyone says, “isn’t he cute, let’s give him another toy.” It teaches him that there are no consequences to his carelessness. In the long run, he would have been better off doing extra chores to earn money for a new toy.

Again, if you don't think that the fear of permanent deprivation, plus like two weeks of no toy aren't a big deal to a kid, you are an asshole who has forgotten what it was like to be young.

VermiciousKnid tries to explain that this kid isn't like welfare strawmen:

PS: The difference between this boy and your every-day, garden variety entitelment handout seeker is that this boy ASKED, and asked politely and contritely. Handout seekers no long ASK for anything; they DEMAND instead.

relictele...

In Obamaphone land they slap a tiny pair of Nike gym shorts on the little ones and wait for the first of the month check to replace them when they are soiled.

What. The. Hell?

happyhomemaker is sure this blackmail will lead to huge Lego price spikes.

Can you imagine the outcry if Lego had responded to the the cute 7 yr olds “request” for a free replacement with a price list for replacement parts? This evening we would be reading about boycotts of Lego because a evil heartless corporation actually had the gall to ask for money for a product from a little kid. Obviously you are offended that I found it a troubling sign that parents are encouraging their young kids to email companies to replace lost parts for free. I know you probably thought this was the feel good story of the year but I can’t get on your bandwagon. So now when I go to buy my son a new Lego set I will rejoice that the prices have gone up 10% to cover their goodwill toward kids like little Luka.