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Thanks, Niagara Region Right to Life. Because what a complex scientific and ethical debate about the nature of humanity and reproductive rights really needs... is more crying nutcrackers.
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First. Holy hell.
ReplyDeleteSecond, it reminded me of this Kids in the Hall clip where Santa (played wonderfully by Mark McKinney) harasses and generally acts like a jerk to a child-free couple on Christmas eve.
http://youtu.be/vzjhdOFSmJU
Here's the hard question: if you agreed with the anti-abortionists' claim that abortion is murder, would you think the ad was effective?
ReplyDeleteClimate change is also a complex issue, but I can see liking a billboard that raises awareness of the dangers using a basic concept with strong emotional impact. After all, advertising is all about reducing complex ideas to simple messages.
Good point, but bad example ( for me). I believe that climate change needs less "you piece of shiit" emotion and more practical and personal motivation and discussion. The emotion is preaching to the choir. We need converts.
ReplyDeleteI know you wouldn't do anything this tacky, but what about using (say) cute baby polar bears, with some kind of doom-ish fate looming over them? That's roughly the same approach.
ReplyDeleteIt wouldn't work on me, because I know that those baby polar bears will grow into ruthless killing machines who would stalk me for days, torture me to death, and then eat me if my plane ever went down in the north, but then, I'm probably not the target audience for cute baby animal posters anyway.
I'm trying really hard to discover better ways to do social marketing, David. You can probably see that in my more thoughtful Osocio posts.
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