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So the author of this post can't see the reason why anyone would want to pay for this, and yet backed the project himself anyway?

It reminds me of the people you see who write forums posts like 'I just got my first Mac, now what?' when the answer is always 'do whatever you wanted it for in the first place'

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"yet backed the project himself anyway?"

Per the OP:

"By the way, I put my $50 in out of pure morbid curiosity of what’s under the hood."

I think you can both think something probably isn't going to work or have issues with it and support it as a hedge or out of, as he said, "morbid curiosity". People do this with politics quite frequently.

> People do this with politics quite frequently.

Really? Do you have an example?

"I didn't really think the war in Iraq would go very well, and I don't really support it; I just wanted to see what would happen."

Probably referring to giving money to candidates who have no chance of winning. Your bad faith example is ridiculous.

I couldn't think of a non-ridiculous example, so thanks for providing one. However, your bad faith assumption that I was commenting in bad faith is a dick move.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870375750457519...

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2011/06/dueling-donations-lo...

You can find examples here of the same individual supporting people in both parties:

http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/indivs.php

Supporting both parties is just support for the status quo, really, it doesn't really require opposing anything. Supporting individual candidates from both parties is even less suspicious.

No, I can reason the multitude of reasons that someone would pay, including my own. Empathy is a helluva drug.

That's not unreasonable. I too have spent money on stuff that I did not understand just to see what it was. It was only $50.

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