Veritas777 opened this issue on Nov 17, 2006 · 92 posts
dphoadley posted Mon, 20 November 2006 at 12:58 AM
Quote - I'd like to see those FTC guidelines applied to a lot of other advertising with the same scruntiny and how well do you think they'd fare? Not very well I'd bet. Why isn't something done about those?
With all the name changes going on lately maybe it would be better to change to Caveat Emptor instead?
This is sorely begging the point. Just because 20 people get away with murder, doesn't mean that murder shouldn't be against the law. Nor soes it mean that the 21st that's caught 'redhanded' shouldn't be prosecuted to the letter of the law.
The bandwagon approach, ie that everybody's doing it, doesn't make a certain practice any more right than it otherwise should be. 'Everybody' used to sacrifice their firstborn child to Molloch, but that didn't make child sacrifice any less abhorrent, even in those days.
David P. Hoadley