Baden

Psychologically, the forms of manipulation are very different though as they are between, say, porn movies and Hollywood flicks (including those with ...

Do you mean the use of sex to advertise other products? Or are you talking specifically about the sex industry?

It's funny, one upshot of all this is that I essentially agree with @"Agustino" that Hollywood, as a major hub of the entertainment industry, is "evil...

I can't improve on anything MU has said, but just to emphasize that there's no escaping the basic formula: Modern forms of entertainment result in the...

Brilliantly put. Expect to be called a communist in 3...2...1...

With Agustino, it generally goes something like: >:O >>>> *facepalm* >>>> pathetic/retard etc. I think most disengage by the *facepalm* stage.

I'm game.

Well, it seems to me that in the future, without mass TV viewing to rely on, advertising is likely to be more targeted, dispersed, invasive and divers...

I thought I had been doing that. Do you have a more specific question or response to one of my comments?

Well, I did design and run a university course on advertising that went over a lot of this stuff. That may not count for much, but I'm not completely ...

Again, complete ignorance. This discussion is not about the personal psychology of the interlocutors, it's about advertising and psychology in general...

Well, at least neither of you are denying complete ignorance of the subject. Whatever floats your boats.

Only someone completely ignorant of the history/psychology of advertising could come up with such a silly comment. So you don't like people who critic...

None of this is much more mysterious than having your mood and thus your behaviour changed by a piece of music. You may be perfectly aware of the proc...

What happened to the roofing gig?

The suicide bomber has no doubt his action is moral. He literally bets his life on it. Yet he is mistaken. Does that surprise you somehow? Or does it ...

That all depends on where their moral considerations lead them. Some will end up saving whales and others flying into tall buildings. However, I don't...

Well, generally moral systems require that for an action to be deemed immoral it must at a minimum result in some kind of harm to another moral agent ...

You're giving a good example of the reason I don't want to use Heister's terminology. Read our conversation again and I think you'll see my point. Or ...

Read what I just wrote. If it's necessary to kill the animal to survive and that reason is a sufficient moral justification for doing so then the acti...

In any case, I'm interested in his answer. X raises his arm purely because it feels good. How does Heister describe X's action in moral terms.

No, it's either moral or immoral. If you need to kill the animal to survive and that's a morally justifiable reason to kill it then it's moral. If the...

We can take the "unnecessarily" out because it adds nothing to the argument here. What you seem to be arguing is "Drinking water is immoral unless one...

I'd presume he's not generalizing as that would entail the claim "For person A to act upon desire X purely because it feels good" is unnecessarily imm...

I would say it's almost all carrot. But the carrot is rotten, and its effect is to impair our ability to distinguish the rotten from the fresh still f...

Verily, 'tis a religion of one. You can have your magic wafer and eat it too.

I would say it's not about whether you can resist it or not. That's a red herring. There is no resistance in the sense of being able to "see through"....

I think it's a fair word to use if admittedly somewhat misleading. What's upset in my view is the kind of psychological balance we casually refer to a...

Not so new really. It's being going on since the 'hard sell' of the 1930s, at least, and right up through the brand revolution of the 70s-80s when met...

I concur. (As long as it's a wood pigeon.)

Well, despite the fact that I haven't had this much fun since my last hamster died, sleep beckons. Adieu... O:)

4am in the morning here. Just finished masturbating at the thought of Agustino masturbating at the thought of me masturbating at the thought of Agusti...

Indeed. Your posts should be virgins with the souls of whores. Don't fuck with them.

That's the way I roll. (Y)

And though she stopped breathing I felt fine (?)

You may have to fight Agustino for them. https://youtu.be/xY_Kb5Qkj-4

Discreet eh? Well, as long as the trailer doesn't start to rock, surely with dear Hanover you would share your...

Lol. You can join Agustino in purgatory then.

You are making the mistake of using your brain. That's not what this discussion is for. Just think with your dick and write it out quick. :P

All that + holding hands = sexual deviancy.

We'll be waiting greased up and ready for you when you change your mind, darling. (L)

This is the random sexual deviancy thread, Agustino, and you are seriously missing the point. The idea is to include in your post some form of random ...

No more than if I took that smiley and shoved it up your arse. In other words, I'm sure you quite enjoy it, my lovely.

Rather a jocular Limerick with bestial overtones to be disgusted by than a man who riven by self-repression blindly ejaculates his prejudices over all...

Attorney / Chili con carne. Lol.

That's great, Hanover. Love it. If I could offer but a mild critique by way of Limerick: A wannabe poet called Hano' Wished to go mano a mano But his ...

Oh, Limericks. I cannot resist carrying on the baton. Ne'er was a thought more easy to grasp 'less your head be stuck up your ass I'm sure my dear sir...

I agree, although I would say that suffering voluntarily taken on as a kind of purgation has a particular character that's worth recognizing. A moral ...

Less of your in-jokes! Have you found Landru yet? We'll take him dead or alive.

I did a search for "conservative meme", Landru. We're first (insert celebratory emoticon here) and some place called "freerepublic.com" is second. May...