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SiN,
Your willingness to even consider my view is appreciated and speaks well for your open-mindedness.
My real point is there's a very big self-righteous factor in the standard positions folks take on issues like this. It makes people feel good to take a position which makes them sound all strong and solid about their own ability to resist advertising.
(The fact that they are often soft touches to many ad pitches for products which they think they want or need is not the issue here. That would rise to the level of self-righteousness as a cover for hypocrisy and I'm not touching that at the moment.)
I just don't feel anything is gained by granting people big props for making themselves feel good by taking positions like this - positions which don't reflect any comprehension of the true state of the population and it's general inability to resist multi-million dollar behavioral modification engineering; positions which ignore the statistics; positions which ignore the fact that it is children who are most at risk because they are targeted most highly and succumb most readily; positions which don't deal with the latest studies that reveal fully 1/3 of the nation's youth will suffer from obesity related diabetes before they reach adulthood; and positions which, when this is even acknowledged at all immediately blame bad parenting - another scapegoat that ignores the reality that children are raised by cultures not by parents.
This type of self-righteous, feel-good stand will never do a thing to improve our culture or our population. It is rampant today, because people who are themselves brainwashed are taking their last sad stand against ever admitting the fact that they have lost the battle...
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