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Do advertisers have a moral obligation to inform as well as persuade?
Ethical Question
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no
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Do your own homework.
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this guy lol
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Their only moral obligation is to make money
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@ homework. Almost caught me off guard and pulled me in but the OP is literally just a question with no insight of his own or back story to explain why this thread was made to convince us otherwise.
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so what if they're flat out lying, but it's resulting in maximizing profits. It's all good?
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so what if they're flat out lying, but it's resulting in maximizing profits. Saul good?
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Depends on what they're advertising.
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Depends how you want to run your business.
Business and Personal morals/virtues often clash.
Business and Personal morals/virtues often clash.
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I seen a special on OWN about infomercials, they'll pay actors to lie about products.
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gatzbygordon
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you mean those arent real doctors? but they have lab coats on..
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No theory are not allowed to lie. If the fed catch wind of a lie product gets pulled and funds happen. If you say something is healthy when its against research then you gotta prove if someone challenge s it
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If that was true, why does the shake weight exist?
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This pretty much sums it up
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How is it not apparent that 99% of businesses are only about making money...
That process is up to use, the customer, to decipher.
Then theres those who have no idea their being lied to, and don't care enough to even make that determination
That process is up to use, the customer, to decipher.
Then theres those who have no idea their being lied to, and don't care enough to even make that determination
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