Manipulating people into buying a product is called "sales." It's not necessarily a bad thing. If you truly believe in your product and in your heart believe

Manipulating people into buying a product is called "sales." It's not necessarily a bad thing. If you truly believe in your product and in your heart believe it's the best solution for the problem it solves, you do not have to be deceitful in selling it. Your argument requires one to believe that advertisement is immoral. One could easily make another argument that selling anything for money that could be given away for free with ads hurts the poor who then are denied access. It wouldn't be true, but it would be built on just as much of a foundation (read none) as yours. Show me some strong statistical studies showing that "90 to 99% of ads" are deceitful. I've watched a lot of ads. I don't think that number's even close to correct. Slick? Sure. Deceitful is a strong word.