How not to measure love
The ranking of donations distorts the nature of charity and thus goes against our original purpose of spontaneously showing our love for quake victims, says an article in People's Daily. The following is an excerpt:
When people at home and abroad all donate to the quake victims to show their love and sympathy, some persons have begun to rank the donations from different circles of the society and some netizens even posted a list of so-called "iron roosters" or stingy companies.
We can see that such ranking of donations was made out of their concern for the quake victims and their good intentions of expecting people to try their best to help these victims. But what we may not take into account is that such comparisons of donation go against the true nature of charity.
