After this recent found information about the Salvation Army, it really got me thinking about how absolutely horrible some supposedly positive organizations can really be. How could this organization that gives to the poor also have such evil alternatives? But then again, so many other organizations do the same thing. Think about the Catholic Church. It preaches about loving thy neighbor and turning the other cheek, but yet some followers commit violent crimes in the name of God or the church.
So can an organization be good and bad? I think yes, but it takes away from the purpose of promoting goodness. I think it also takes away from the purity of the virtueist or altruistic acts. I think that having impure alternatives takes away from a lot of goodness that is done by people.
I think the organization can probably be part good and part bad, but cannot over all be both. It can be one or the other or even neutral. We have to weigh, for ourselves, the good and evil of these organizations before we support them.
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