Re: [Global] Trains in TV ads

[pcc@ocean.com.au (Brown Family)]

On Sun, 14 May 2000 09:34:35 GMT, "Dave Proctor"
<daproc@spambait.ozemail.com.au> wrote:

>"Brown Family" <pcc@ocean.com.au> wrote in message
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>> >Yes, if you read my post, you will see that. "I am in favour of messages
>> >being blunt and "in your face" if that is what it will take to save
>lives."
>> >
>> Yes and I'd agree if it did save lives, but, as I said, there is no
>> proof it does.
>
>And no proof that it doesn't.
>
So why are you in favour of it if you have no proof?

>> >> Some would call that "wowserism".
>> >
>> >Some wouuld call your objection to the original ad the same thing.
>> >
>> Ok, fair enough, but I'd call it bad taste and morally inappropriate.
>
>If you recall, I called it the same thing (bad taste). As for moral
>appropriateness, once we start inflicting our own morals on others, then
>that is the start of a moral dictatorship.
>
Hardly. I am not saying you cannot do it, nor am I saying I can stop
it from happening. But in-you-face advertsing is could be likened to a
form of dictatorship since it rams the advertisers goods down my
throat without suggesting whether I might or might not be interested
in the product in the first place. 

I would suggest to you that since I am no more forcing my values on
you than you are forcing your values on me, you have no justification
other than trivialisation and facetiousness to claim any form or
promotion of dicatorship, moral or otherwise on my part.

My concerns are centered on negative inlfuences on my children, and by
extension, on other's children. If I find influences that could have a
positive or negative impact on my children, I would assume the same
for others as well and would therefore promote or condemn such
influences as the case may be. Other parents can, and have, done the
same for me. Some of it was not welcomed, most of it was. 

>Excues my typing, my typing hand is in plaster at the moment.
>
Of course you are forgiven. To forgive is divine.

(:-))

Les Brown
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.