There is a site run by Dannon Yogurt company that promises to provide "15 meals" (worth $1, gotta be a heck of a meal) to the hungry for every click on a particular link.
Is it moral to write a script to do this thousands of times? What do you think?
I talked this over with a friend and he pointed out that at some point, you deprive others of an opportunity to participate. I.e., if I served all 75,000 clicks ($75k is the limit) myself, which actually I could fairly easily do, that would mean that no one else would experience the joy of giving, and presumably the program would close down. (We're ignoring the possibility that they'll figure out it was a script and disqualify it.) One could also argue that hastening the end of the program would limit it's hunger-awareness message. Again, if I fulfill the rest of the clicks today, and tomorrow they shut the program down, no more awareness will be raised about hunger on their website.
Practically speaking, they will probably notice the spike in clicks, trace it to a single source, and disqualify them!
