Reply To: Stupid ASPCA commercials

Your question was, why should you not give tzedaka to the ASPCA. My answer is that using money set aside for the obligatory mitvah of tzedaka to give to “lesser causes” (which I don’t even agree are worthwhile causes at all – but that’s a different discussion) when you can use that limited amount of money for more important causes, is not only a lack of responsibility, but also a lack of compassion for the people that could use the money that you choose to give to the animals shelters, instead.