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There is a difference between outright lying and kind-of sort-of lying (a.k.a. “gilding the lily”). For instance, outright lying in order to have someone give you money who would otherwise have refused is usually called “fraud” and nearly universally shunned, whereas gilding the lily in order to have someone give you money who would otherwise have refused is usually called “marketing” and it is said that “advertising is the life of trade”. And what certain PUAs do surely sounds to me much more like marketing than like fraud.
Most people are in favor of punishing advertisements that mislead consumers. Companies - who ideally would use advertisement solely to raise awareness of their product - have a financial incentive to make their ads as persuasive as possible, and so constantly push at the legal boundaries. Advertisement will always be biased, no matter how strict our regulations. But then, what we should do and what should be legal are two different questions.
I guess I'd better tap out now.
... may I ask why?
I don't think I have much else to say, short of mind-killing myself, which I kind-of would rather not do.
I know what "tap out" implies, I just wondered what about this conversation prompted it. Are you worried about the political overtones of my last comment?
No. (I don't have any strong opinion on whether the current legislation on advertising is too lax or too strict, mainly because I don't know much about how lax or how strict the current legislation on advertising is.) It's just that if I carried on this discussion I'd be just reinstating points already made elsewhere in this thread with different words or talking nonsense.
Ah, OK. Thanks for explaining.