Great article, but the problem that I have with marketing is that it can blur what would otherwise be a more logical situation. It isn't that marketing can be

Great article, but the problem that I have with marketing is that it can blur what would otherwise be a more logical situation. It isn't that marketing can be used for good or evil, but that marketing makes it hard to distinguish between the two. Good marketing of a good product will often look the same as good marketing of a bad product. Take Enzyte as an example. Their ads are slick and have the polish and convincing ability of ads for good products. Yet, they're selling nothing real. In fact, the company's owner was convicted of 93 counts of conspiracy, fraud and money laundering connected to Enzyte. And this is a $500M company! It's not like they had small sales to a few gullible individuals. People saw the ads, they were professional, had the same look/feel as legit ads and bought into it based on the image. Marketing obscures our ability to differentiate between good and bad. It's not that people are convincing us to do bad things, it's that they're impairing our ability to figure out what is good and bad. That's what makes marketing evil. Whether we end up making a good decision or not becomes more random than without marketing because we are less able to differentiate. Conning people into doing something good is still conning them into doing it. Wouldn't it be better for people to make decisions based off of evidence than marketing?