Discussion Who's going to win the election?

[mrsticky005]

Have you seen those stories about say a child with a terminal disease wishes to meet say, a famous athlete? Why should the famous athlete care that a dying child wants to meet him? Why should you care this dying child got his wish? Yet they show stuff like that on TV because people clearly do care even though you presumably have absolutely no idea who the child is. It's one of those feel good stories that people can rally behind. It's similar to how people tend to root for the underdog. If a candidate for presidency got shot but recovered, people usually rally behind that guy. Why should you care that a candidate got shot? It's not like getting shot improves his ability to lead (in fact it can only worsen it), but people support that guy because there's some human tendency to support the underdog.

It's not the fact that Gon is a celebrity amongst the Hunter world (all of Gon's friends would probably vote for Leorio just knowing he's a close friend anyway) that gets him support.

I don't think your comparison works. With the athlete they use their own resources to visit the child with the terminal illness. In Leorio's case he's asking for help to heal Gon.
Leorio is basically admitting he can't save Gon on his own but that he needs help.
The athlete can help on their own. Leorio can't. Leorio needs help. Even the candidate
getting shot is a triumph story and against all odds. Leorio is just admitting defeat.

The only way I could see it working is that people just admire Leorio's honesty.

 

[Phantron]

I don't think your comparison works. With the athlete they use their own resources to visit the child with the terminal illness. In Leorio's case he's asking for help to heal Gon.
Leorio is basically admitting he can't save Gon on his own but that he needs help.
The athlete can help on their own. Leorio can't. Leorio needs help. Even the candidate
getting shot is a triumph story and against all odds. Leorio is just admitting defeat.

The only way I could see it working is that people just admire Leorio's honesty.

The Make-a-wish and similar stuff are all done by organizations. It's not like famous people just randomly read on the Internet to hear about someone who wants to see them before they die. There's clearly a bunch of people involved to make all this stuff happen. They obviously aren't doing it because they personally know the people involved, but rather they do it because it feels like the right thing to do.

 

[mrsticky005]

The Make-a-wish and similar stuff are all done by organizations. It's not like famous people just randomly read on the Internet to hear about someone who wants to see them before they die. There's clearly a bunch of people involved to make all this stuff happen. They obviously aren't doing it because they personally know the people involved, but rather they do it because it feels like the right thing to do.

Either that or it is good publicity. Though I do imagine some are sincerely just trying to help.


It's like this. If Presidential Candidate X had an entire campaign of "When I become President I will use all my resources to save random child with cancer." I don't
think they would get very far. Sure, saving a random child with cancer is a noble cause
but you don't need to be president to do that nor will being president necessarily do that.
Besides, many children have cancer why just that one? Or what about kids with other
diseases? Plus if the Presidential Candidate X is solely concerned with saving a random
child with cancer he will slack off on other important areas---like national defense.
People may be stupid and easily moved but I don't think they are THAT stupid and
easily moved. I think the Presidential Candidate X would need to convince people
he had SOME level of competence and I think the same goes for the Hunter Association
Chairman.