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by melling 4242 days ago
No enthusiasm. Just demonstrating that that person was obviously wrong. It was the quickest thing I could come up with in 15 seconds. I was just giving a proof by contradiction. All I need is one, right? I can give you other reasons people give to charities. They might want to see a cure for a disease they might get, for example.

$125m to Stanford: http://cancer.stanford.edu/research/documents/scinewswinter2...

Didn't one or both of the Google founders donate to help some conditions that they have?

Howard Hughes gave a lot of his money to his medical institute simply because he didn't want to give it to the government.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes_Medical_Institu...