+226 Sometimes when you see those sad ads about children in Africa, you want to make a difference, but then your show comes back on, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

A lot of them tend to show children that just look around cluelessly with sad music. It doesn't really make me feel for them more than it does make me laugh. Could they really not get footage of tragedies over there?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

If you really wanted to help, you wouldn't need footage of a heart-breaking tragedy. Why do you need to be //made// to feel for the misery of others?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I didn't say I "really wanted to help". I wouldn't even know how to at the moment. There aren't really many places to donate things here, nor do I have a credit card, a driver's license, or influence over my mother. Right now we're worried about our own financial crisis. I should be "made" to feel the misery because that's what the commercials are designed to do. They're supposed to make you feel what they're going through. Their hardships, their tragedies. People are easily influenced by emotions more than they are logic, even if for several minutes. And if you knew anything about advertising you'd know that.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I'm sorry if I assumed you wanted to aid the less fortunate. In all honesty, though, I wasn't referring to //you// in particular, it was more of a general "you". On another note, I think saying that "people are easily influenced by emotions more than they are logic" is quite a sweeping statement which has no factual evidence to back it up and which doesn't apply to the majority of the population. It annoys me that so many people get away with convincing people to believe lies using axiomatically fallacious arguments. Finally, I'd like to point out the fact that there is really no need to insult my knowledge of advertising especially when what you put forward as obvious is inherently unproven and in all likelihood fictitious.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

This post made me laugh.

by Anonymous 11 years ago