Doing a good deed amid tragedy should earn respect from everyone, but the anonymity of the internet always finds a way to ruin the moment with cheap moralism. The well-known adult video actress Yu Tano decided to do her part and donated the significant amount of 3 million yen to the Japanese Red Cross to support the victims of the recent and devastating earthquake in Kumamoto. In addition to the cash injection, the actress coordinated with a friend in Hiroshima to send emergency supplies including drinks, sanitary products, and essential diapers to ground zero.

Through her channels, Tano admitted feeling deeply affected every time she saw news reports about the disaster. Although she herself considered her financial contribution small compared to the disaster’s scale, her only wish was for the affected to regain normal life as soon as possible. However, instead of applauding the gesture, a loud segment of the community launched a cyber fun, calling her noble contribution “dirty money” solely because of her work in the entertainment industry in Japan.

Far from being intimidated by the puritanical attacks, the actress responded with maturity that ridiculed her critics. Tano made it clear that there is absolutely no valid reason to deny someone the opportunity to provide humanitarian aid simply because of their profession. Her argument was blunt: the only thing that truly matters in such crisis situations is that help reaches the hands of those who lost everything, regardless of which pocket the funding comes from that could save their lives.

Seeing how some internet users prefer to spew venom about the morality of money rather than appreciate that resources exist to help people in crisis, do you think social prejudices in the Asian country cross absurd boundaries even during the worst emergencies?