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How absurd, would you blame Ford for deaths that result from street racing? Overindulgence, like unsafe vehicle operation, is on the user.
by jlgreco 14y ago
How absurd, would you blame Ford for deaths that result from street racing?
Overindulgence, like unsafe vehicle operation, is on the user.
- DanBC 14y agoIf Ford had a $2.5billion[1] advertising program encouraging people to take part in street racing then yes, I might well hold them partly responsible for street racing deaths. Especially if the budget for public health education is tiny. [1] 2007, according to this source (http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/what-top-brands-spend-on-advertising.html http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2007/10/what-top-brands-spen...)
- jlgreco 14y agoThey've certainly spent plenty of money sponsoring racing games, racing events, and various other racing related things. The connection between cars and going dangerously fast is not something the automotive industry had nothing to do with. If you can't control yourself after seeing "These CGI polar bears and this multi-ethnic group of skater kids both like our soda", then that is entirely on you. (Well, on you, or perhaps on your parents who clearly failed to raise you properly.) For anything short of "More doctors smoke camels", I really cannot place blame on companies for advertising. I see no evidence of such deliberate deception in modern soda advertisement.