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[-] weker01@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago

Well those tobacco companies still have advertisements don't they?

[-] A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Kinda not? In many places is illegal to advertise tobacco, and the marketing people are the same who do the anti-tobacco campaigns and many other PSAs.

You could kinda say that marketing people were the ones who ended Pinochet dictatorship even, every tool can be used to do harm, but just as the tool a mugger uses to stab a victim is a knife, knife as well is the scalpel that a surgeon will use to save that person, a tool on it's own rarely is good or bad, and marketing is a tool.

I'm not saying that they're marketing is not annoying or many times bad, just that that is not inherently bad.

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