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Originally posted by ARTelevision
As many of you know, I have maintained that we should create regulations to enforce against the production and advertising of the sort of food products that cause far more harm than good to our population. ...
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You believe the government should pass a law telling us what advertising we should be able to see and what food we can eat.
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Originally posted by ARTelevision
... It is the height of absurdity to believe that average and normative individuals have the power or ability to withstand the onslaught of billions of dollars of research, and megadollar initiatives regarding how humans can be manipulated into consuming anything that is advertised heavily in the mass media. ...
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The reason is you believe the average person is not capable of making good decisions on their own because of the power of advertising.
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Originally posted by ARTelevision
... Therefore, government needs to take responsibility for deflecting the most deleterious messages that private industry is capable of wreaking on our population. ...
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You believe the government needs to protect us, for the good of society.
What did I misinterpret?
What we have here is a difference of opinion, I agree advertising has got out of hand, but I do not believe we should let the government make the decisions on what we can eat and what advertising we can watch.
I believe the average person does have the power to resist advertising, if they want.
When you shift responsibility you also give away rights, I do not feel we should give away anymore rights.
This will be my last post on this thread because obliviously neither of us will be swayed from our position.
Luckily we live in a free society where we can both express our opinions freely. Unless of course the arguments are so strong the average person can't resist them - then they can be deemed "bad for society" and outlawed - right Art?