[Wolves] OT: 2 Live8 tickets possibly available - Hyde Park this Saturday 2nd July

[Alan Pope]

On 28/06/05, Peter Cannon <peter at cannon-linux.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 June 2005 10:39, Alan Pope wrote:
> 
> > IMHO it seems somewhat immoral to be given a ticket to take part in
> > such an event, only to sell that ticket on to the highest bidder for
> > *personal* gain only. If the person was just giving them away then
> > just give them to a mate or a friend at work/school/college, I'm sure
> > it's not *that* hard to give them away. But in this circumstance the
> > OP specifically said they wanted money, and there would be in effect a
> > sealed bid auction to maximise the profits on the sale of the tickets.
> 
> You see you used the word 'given' but thats not true is it? you paid for it!
> the text you sent cost money, OK some lucky sod may have sent one text which
> cost, I don't know, £1.50? but you still paid for it all the same.
> 

Which makes it even worse! "Look how much I paid the charity for this
ticket, yet I made 50 quid out of it", yeah, well done, nice one,
congratulations.

> Moral blackmail is a terrible thing and ultimately this is what its all about,

If you're of that opinion then all morals are about blackmail. They're
not. They're about a common consensus of acceptable behaviour. One
person deems some behaviour acceptable, another does not, different
morals/ethics.

The word is "difference" not blackmail.

> if it was a charity football match and the tickets went on ebay sure there
> would be one or two rumbles but no one would give a dam.
> 

It depends on where the proceeds go. If the seller gives the money to
the charity, it's okay (IMHO), if it's for personal gain, it's again
tasteless. However the fact that I have a rather intense dislike of
football saves me from having to worry about that too much :)

Cheers,
Al.