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If your assumption is that people are helpless to resist persuasion, then who is this incorruptible entity who will protect us from having to make our own choic
by winston_smith 6y ago
If your assumption is that people are helpless to resist persuasion, then who is this incorruptible entity who will protect us from having to make our own choices?
- bryanrasmussen 6y agothe assumption is that there is some point where people need to be protected, the scenario I envisage is a point where it is extremely obvious because if there was an advertisement that could cause you to automatically buy it people would need to be protected or the company with the advertised product would soon have all the money and all their customers would end up enslaved to it. The question of course is if there are any less extreme scenarios where people need to be protected. But I think the real question that needs asking here Winston, is when are you going to just give up and love Big Brother?
- winston_smith 6y agoYou're using the passive voice, "people must be protected", which calls for action without considering whether the cure might be worse than the disease.