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Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin
I could write a separate book on practically every war we've ever fought and title each one "The Best Story Ever Sold". In every war, our leaders give us a justification as to why the war is necessary. In other words, they are "selling us" on the war. In every one of these cases, it would be easy to come up with a counter-argument as to why the story we were sold was misleading. I don't think that proves anything. You could say the same thing about anything.
I'll give you an example. I could say that burglar-alarms are the "best story ever sold". Then I could give you all these reasons as to why the arguments in favor of burglar alarms are misleading. I could say that burglar alarms don't really make you safer and that they won't prevent you from being burglarized. I could say that there is less than a 1% chance that your house will get burglarized this year even if you don't have an alarm. Etc, etc, etc.
I could conclude that burglar alarmsa re nothing more than a big scam.
Anyway, you get my point. I could write a book as to why burglar alarms are unnecessary and explain why many of the arguments in favor of them are misleading. Would my book prove anything? Not really. The book would give some good counter-arguments and it would tell you why some of the arguments that the burglar-alarm industry makes are somewhat misleading. But the book would not prove that burglar alarms are unnecessary.
Anyway, the point is that you could write a book called "The Greatest Story Ever Sold" on practically anything that is sold. And if you did your research, I'm sure you could come with some good arguments against the product being sold. But this wouldn't prove anything. It wouldn't prove that the product is not good. And it would not prove that the sellers of the product did anything wrong.
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Rupert,
You certainly put thought into this response.
Did you read the links?
I won't get "longwinded". I'll just say that your burglar alarm anology is about like comparing an apple to an orange.
Burglar alarms don't kill people, they protect them.
Wars kill people, no one is secure.
When buying a product that sellers are selling, "Let the buyer beware".
'Nuf said.