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American Sense of Humor; "They Come in Peace"
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07 Aug 2008 Thu 03:21 pm |
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Kill the husband and send the woman a dildo!
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/01/0079869
Are we supposed to laugh at this?
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07 Aug 2008 Thu 04:17 pm |
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I find their actions to be in very bad taste. But then again, they may have made somone´s day. 
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07 Aug 2008 Thu 04:39 pm |
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Or more like a message that you don´t NEED a man. Maybe that´s how I´m interpreting it. But yes, I agree it is in bad taste.
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07 Aug 2008 Thu 04:45 pm |
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Quoting teaschip: Or more like a message that you don´t NEED a man. Maybe that´s how I´m interpreting it. But yes, I agree it is in bad taste. |
You know, in Iraq, men are not just ´necessary´ for sex. There are some more essential survival needs that men fulfill there. 
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07 Aug 2008 Thu 04:48 pm |
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This is hideous and as you say Cat, another reason to hate the industry - I couldn´t agree more. We live in a fallen world where sex, violence and degredation are the top three most valuable selling points ! What a shame 
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07 Aug 2008 Thu 04:59 pm |
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It is not that surprising in a way that people who think the war is just a video game from cnn for them, CAN make these type of jokes..
It is understandable..
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07 Aug 2008 Thu 07:34 pm |
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That´s so tactless. Some people are simply sick.
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07 Aug 2008 Thu 08:53 pm |
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07 Aug 2008 Thu 09:11 pm |
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Quoting zhang ziyi: I think that´s absolutely OK. It is a part of business.
You have a product you sell it.
If I was assigned a task to sell a washing powder to cows, I would walk around cows and try to convince them, although I would know I would fail.
The next thing I would do is to send a report to my manager that cows decided not to use our service for the moment.
It´s just a business. |
Hahaha, and this is exactly why capitalism is hideous. MORALITY SIMPLY DOESN´T EXIST FOR THEM. It is all about profit, at any cost, human lives have absolutely no meaning other then as consumers.
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07 Aug 2008 Thu 09:12 pm |
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Quoting Cacık: This is hideous and as you say Cat, another reason to hate the industry - I couldn´t agree more. We live in a fallen world where sex, violence and degredation are the top three most valuable selling points ! What a shame |
+1
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07 Aug 2008 Thu 11:04 pm |
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07 Aug 2008 Thu 11:20 pm |
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Quoting zhang ziyi: Quoting catwoman: Quoting zhang ziyi: I think that´s absolutely OK. It is a part of business.
You have a product you sell it.
If I was assigned a task to sell a washing powder to cows, I would walk around cows and try to convince them, although I would know I would fail.
The next thing I would do is to send a report to my manager that cows decided not to use our service for the moment.
It´s just a business. |
Hahaha, and this is exactly why capitalism is hideous. MORALITY SIMPLY DOESN´T EXIST FOR THEM. It is all about profit, at any cost, human lives have absolutely no meaning other then as consumers. |
My business is to offer you, your business is to reject or accept. The morality differs from a group to a group, from culture to culture. It covers everything. It is a too big issue to waste time and energy on.
Don´t we call it a freedom of choice?
Why can´t we offer such products to Iraqi women? Are they different from the rest of the world? Don´t they have a choice?
All of us are consumers, want it or not. |
You are mixing freedom of choice with loose morality.
And I am sure, had your husband or your gf got killed by the iraqies and if you were sent a dildo, you would still be talking about the beauty of the offer, the freedom of the joice and how fittingly convinient the present was.
I have no doubt you as a consumer, would not hesitate to consume that conviniently fitting tool.
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08 Aug 2008 Fri 12:15 am |
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If this really went in to Harpers then someone I hope got their marching orders. How low can they go.
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08 Aug 2008 Fri 12:29 am |
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Quoting libralady: If this really went in to Harpers then someone I hope got their marching orders. How low can they go. |
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08 Aug 2008 Fri 03:09 am |
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Quoting zhang ziyi: My business is to offer you, your business is to reject or accept. The morality differs from a group to a group, from culture to culture. It covers everything. It is a too big issue to waste time and energy on.
Don´t we call it a freedom of choice?
Why can´t we offer such products to Iraqi women? Are they different from the rest of the world? Don´t they have a choice?
All of us are consumers, want it or not. |
That is completely misguided. Businesses don´t offer us "free" choices. They have lots of power and unlimited freedom to manipulate people in very powerful ways, especially when they have no ethical and social responsibility.
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). If they really wanted to help, they would have spent that money on water supplies. One more reason to hate the ´sex industry´.