Ok I think I have enough responses to give you the whole story.
There is absolutely no catch. None.
Here is the situation I envisioned and do with it as you please.
I was sitting in bed a couple days ago and thought about what I would do with a couple hundred million from the powerball jackpot lottery. The first thought was of course to pay off any debt I owe flat out and apart from a couple security precautions would continue living mostly like I currently do.
Then I thought what would I possibly do with that money. Of course saving it would seem like a good idea but thats actually pointless. I'd only need to set aside a couple or 5 million to make so much money on interest that even the interest would be too much to spend. That leaves me with still over 200 million. Then I thought why not help other people and since I'm partial to the TG community for obvious reasons I thought thats as good a place as any to start. As per my scenerio, all I would ask would be to interview the reciepient before hand to understand how much the procedures meant to them and to see if they would appreciate the gift or if they're just in line for a hand out. Money doesn't make people happy necessarily but I bet I can use the money to make people happy and that in turn will bring me happiness.
I can appreciate the financial strain that the procedures would or have caused and why not aleviate the strain to bring a little bit more happiness to the world? See no catch, unless you count wanting to help people because of my good fortune a catch.
Now you might ask "Would you honestly do something like that?" I have no doubt at all given that circumstance that I would absolutely offer that
opportunity.to as many people as I could. Now I know how things like this can get out of hand pretty fast and I'm not entirely sure if I could really support the procedures of every TG that was interested but if I had to, saving some of the money to generate enough return on investments, I could offer the opportunity to more as the interest accumulated.
I hold no illusion that TG people would be the only ones I tried to help because yes a lot of people are worse off but you have to start somewhere and its more feasible to start small instead of trying to fix everything at once.
As per some of your responses, I know people are sometimes just too suspicious to take a leap of a faith or they don't want to feel obligated to someone. You can't help those who don't want the help. But anyone that does take the offer would certainly find I'm true to my word. They wouldn't ever have to see me again after the interview if they desired though I would hope they would remember what kindness has done for them and pass it on someday without a reason other then to just do it because you can.
The only thing I'm slightly wary about in this all is that others may attempt to take advantage of me to try to take my money through other means. That being said I'm sure I would have to offer some sort of legal release lest I find lawsuits upon me from people who were not satisfied or some such. I'm sure given the right preperation I can keep the act of assistance or reimbursement as good intentioned as possible.
The only thing I might add is in response to "How could you possibly do this?" I respond that Mia left to her own devices has almost unrestricted compassion for others, this being an act of compassion, and even if I had to allocate half the money for Mia to spend as she wants and half for Marq, that would still be enough to succeed at this cause.
Well thats the whole story, whats everyone say? Sticking with your answers?
Marq and Mia
Who says you can't change the world?
You need only try
