With a looming iron-grip marketers and advertisers have over pretty much anything in their reach, why aren’t the masses collectively making harassment campaigns to them?

I think if we actively told every single marketer off in a prolonged effort, they’d get a hint as to how much of their commercialism we don’t need shoved down our throats.

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    Because I try my best to treat other people the way I wish to be treated myself. I have no desire to harass anyone, and if I did, I’d feel awful about it. There are enough jerks in the world already, and I don’t want to add to that. Nobody has ever stopped acting shitty because people responded by acting shitty toward them. What you’re advocating isn’t virtuous, no matter what story you tell yourself about it. You’re just trying to justify your own bad behavior so you don’t have to feel guilty when you go to bed at night.

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      Nobody has ever stopped acting shitty because people responded by acting shitty toward them.

      Absolutely not true, and also contrary to the entire premise of the justice system.

      But while you go too far in some of your arguments, your point is sound.

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      Marketers and Advertisers don’t respect you, though. Why respect anybody who just doesn’t respect you? People are just going to act shitty or have potential to be shitty anyways even if you respected them, that’s just how some of it goes.

      I don’t respect anybody who feel they’re entitled to my time and sometimes, money.