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What does it even mean to "ban advertising"? It's amazing how people just blurt things out without even thinking about what they are saying. So I can't talk abo

• AlecSchueler 3y ago
  Think you may be falling for the composition fallacy. We're speaking colloquially here so there's no expectation that anyone is going to fully explicate everything as if they're writing a piece of legislation. Obviously only certain subsets of commercial communication would be banned in such an action and with the common parlance of what advertising is it should be quite clear to most people here the kind of things that were meant. The person you responded to even alluded to other more consumer friendly modes of advertising that could be tolerated and encouraged.
  • phendrenad2 3y ago
    People should say what they mean. I waste a lot of time on here arguing with people who actually DO believe their ridiculous statements, so it's always nice in cases such as this where it's discovered later that they were speaking "colloquially" (in other words, imprecisely)
    • AlecSchueler 3y ago
      At the end of the day there are different levels of precision expected in different context, and there's no changing that. If we had to expend the energy to be precise to legislative levels all the time then no one would bother to speak. You'll have a much better time of you adjust your expectations to meet the likely reality rather than beating your head against it.
• throwbadubadu 3y ago
  What has that to do with advertising? That's the opposite likely, like a real recommendation or at least objective evaluation from an unbiased trusted person?