Published: Friday, January 25
Jodie Sinnema, The Edmonton Journal
EDMONTON -- A member of the board of governors of the University of Alberta is under fire from an anti-tobacco student group for not supporting its campaign to ban tobacco-funded research money at the university.
In October, when a group of students from E-Butt (Education-Bringing Youth Tobacco Truths) approached Bruce Saville, he wouldn't take their pamphlet about getting big tobacco off campus, saying, "No, I think dirty money is money."
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this reminds me of how we use different scales when handling money. for instance here the categories of "good" or "bad" money is an example a nominal scale. so although money is supposedly uniscalar in valuation, as the guy in the article argues.. it's not always the way we handle and money in our society.
I agree with the school official. If dirty money is used for a good cause, why not take it? It certainly does not purify the acts of tobacco companies, but that's another debate. Refusing money to fund education will not produce any real results. You must fight from the system out. Tobacco companies still exist because of political interests. Unless we see how the system works, then we can't fix it. You can also work from outside the system but can you ever be outside of it?
I suppose that the man that said he prefers money as its plain value and does not care if it is dirty or not. In fact, he himself proactively cleanses the money by his way of thought. I really found it interesting how much one has belief in money or lack thereof.
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