Miss World and charity

OK. So get this. Apparently Australia's contestant for the Miss World beauty pageant got the nod without competing! Shock horror! Turns out that the finals in Poland were brought forward, and there was 'no time' to arrange the state competitions without potentially handicapping the girl as she wouldn't be prepared enough. So they gave the job to Australia's runner up from last year.

One of the other potential contestants was quoted in The Age as saying this:

"I am disappointed they cancelled it. It is unfair. I was starting to organise fund-raising for World Vision. I had picked my charity. It is not exactly her fault but she didn't have any competition for this year and there may have been a better person to do the job."

I have one thing to say. Dear Miss disappointed, I hope that this great charity work you started to get organised you will continue with even though you aren't in the competition this year. Why? Well, it struck me as kind of stupid. It reads like she is saying it's not fair because she put in some hard work to do things for a charity, and now there is no point going through with it - as though the only reason to do it is because she might be Australia's contestant. Makes a mockery of it really...

*sigh*

Or am I being too harsh? Is charity from someone who has an alterior motive better than no charity? Take the whole gambling thing. The Salvation Army won't knowingly accept money from TAB and the like because of how the money is gained.

Interested on random thoughts from anybody reading this...