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Yes, people try to manipulate you all the time. My point is - it's fair game. It's exactly the game that all of us are playing all the time, it's pretty fun, it
by golergka 8y ago
Yes, people try to manipulate you all the time. My point is - it's fair game. It's exactly the game that all of us are playing all the time, it's pretty fun, it's challenging, and I see no point in painting someone as immoral just because they're winning at it.
- anoncake 8y agoNot all of us play this "game". Most of us aren't psychopaths.
- dsfyu404ed 8y agoBut you have to coexist with everyone else in a society that finds advertising, manipulation (to an extent) and other things psychopaths excel at tolerable. There's a whole range of "bad" things that society finds tolerable (I'm talking in general, not specifically advertising or trying to manipulate people) and if you cannot stand one/many of those things then you're free to live in a log cabin in the woods. I'd love to not play the taxes game or put up with the paternalistic government I live under but it just so happens that it's a prerequisite to being part of society. I'm free to screw off to some log cabin in the woods but I'd rather live within society even if it had some problems.
- anoncake 8y agoThat does not make advertising and other manipulation less immoral. > and if you cannot stand one/many of those things then you're free to live in a log cabin in the woods. If you have nothing intelligent to contribute, don't post.