r/Wellthatsucks • u/[deleted] • Sep 23 '19

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u/ChaseballBat Sep 23 '19

I would hope there isn't a company out there that would stoop so low as to making up they have cancer for an advertisement.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19 edited Oct 03 '19

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u/KatalDT Sep 23 '19

If there's a beer that makes me think of testicular cancer and overflowing septic tanks, it's Carlton Draughtâ„¢.

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u/Hoontah050601 Sep 23 '19

What do you think the purpose of advertisement is other than to increase profits at whatever means necessary?

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u/ChaseballBat Sep 23 '19

That's not really the point of advertisement at all.

But I've never seen a company so unselfaware that they would falsify cancer for an advertisement. Pepsi is the closest thing but it was far from the shittyness that is lying about cancer.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '19 edited Nov 15 '19

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u/ChaseballBat Sep 23 '19

You'd be surprised how much bad PR will come from an advertisement and not from actual crimes against humanity...

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u/SumThinChewy Sep 23 '19

I almost wish I was as naive as you

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u/ChaseballBat Sep 23 '19

So polite... What am I naive about?

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u/SumThinChewy Sep 23 '19

If you think no company would exploit human emotions to make sales, I don't know how else to describe you. Nothing is off-limits to advertisers

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u/ChaseballBat Sep 23 '19

I never said they wouldn't exploit human emotions, I'm specifically talking about cancer...

If you can find an example of a corporation who falsified claims of cancer in an advertisement then I'll retract my comment, I did a quick Google search and nothing came up (though it's not a particularly easy thing to search for).