KenLee wrote:
The point here is being missed by almost everyone. It does not matter what the motivations of either player is but what is the result. ...
Have you even been reading the same thread as everyone else? It is PRECISELY the result that nearly everyone has been talking about, or at least those who are taking the position that this was almost certainly a fruitless and ineffective way to turn a chica away from becoming an HDR prostitute. According to those people the probably result is that this approach almost certainly does NOT work.
As for the less tangible "scientific" results of filling one's brain with endorphins and goody-goody feelings, you might have noted that I already basically said as much when I wrote: "
the main thing this giver was probably trying to acheive was to make HIMSELF feel like he was doing a good and magnanimous thing and was making some sort of difference. And, in THAT regard, he probably succeeded. Go ahead, fella, pat yourself on the back.
Does the chica feel a greater sense of well-being, pride and self-worth having received a fatherly lecture on not becoming a slut along with a "pity-payment" (more accurately a "guilt-payment")? Maybe so. I know I wouldn't be entirely displeased receiving a $100 payment just to leave a place I didn't really want to be and a $100 certainly means so much more to a poor chica. That $100 certainly helps put that food on the breakfast table, but then so would have the $100 she might have earned if that some kind-hearted gentlemen had taken her back to his room for an hour and given her a chance to earn it. And her N*no's rumbling stomach certainly doesn't know or care where the money came from to pay for the food in it. Even more important, the act doesn't do any more than help her out for that day or week (assuming she didn't even turn around and return to the HDR later that night or week). She may have had a $100 in her pocket when she returned to her home that night and a LITTLE extra breathing room, but all the factors that "forced" her to turn to the HDR (the source of her angst) were still there the next morning and nothing had really changed.
And as for the waves of kumbaya spreading to all those who witnessed this incident, I should remind you he walked out with her (and everyone else inside the bar) thinking he was taking her back to his hotel. It wasn't until he was out on the sidewalk in front of all the hucksters, pickpockets and drug dealers that he opened his wallet and handed her the cien along with his admonishment, so the only people around to learn anything from it were not exactly the sorts of people who would take away the lesson you were suggesting. But even if he had done what he did inside, look at the reaction to his gesture in this thread. Many more guys would look at what he did as a hopelessly naive and foolish gesture than would actually be inspired to do it themselves.
The point which you have seemed to have missed is not that it was absolutely impossible that this might have some minor positive results. It is that this was an incredibly ineffective way to deal with the problem it purported to solve. If he really wanted to help poor women hoping to avoid a life of prostitution, he should have donated the same money to someplace like Fundacion Rehab, which provided retraining and other assistance for sex-workers seeking a way out rather than as a cash payment who, for all he knows may be short of money because her baby's daddy took her cash to pay his brothel bill. Furthermore, if he really thinks that what these chicas have to do is so horrible, then maybe he shouldn't be paying dozens or even hundreds of other chicas who are probably not that much happier to be there than the chica he paid off. When you're paying hundreds of chicas for sex, paying one not to have sex for money is practically meaningless and more likely amounts to a payment to assuage his guilt or make him feel better about all those chicas he doesn't help that way.
Going about things this way is so incredibly ineffective that, unless one is completely deluding themself, there have to be far better ways to make one feel better about themselves. And that brings me to my final point (in this post at least).
If one thinks that by doing an action like this they're really making any sort of real difference, then they're really deluding themselves. In that regard, it is not so different from the guys who delude themselves into thinking these same chicas (who by your account all hate their jobs) aren't all really just about the money when they are with them.