HW 29

Many older people intellectuals, professors, scholars and so on believe that advertising should be banned to young people. To that point I answer what about our economy? Isn't our economy something to be valued and protected. Given the fact that young people are the largest consumer base in this economy its crucial to protect the freedom of advertising so that the only large scale group of consumers still buying during the recession can continue to prop up our consumer driven economy. Furthermore I'm not convinced that heavily regulating advertising to teenagers will solve the problem. That would become just another excuse for teens to hate the adult world and the culture they live in. It would be viewed as a violation of their freedom; and would they be so wrong? For many being in between the ages of fourteen and twenty is practicaly a prison cell. Filled with mindless routines and exercises that seem to have no end. For these people a ban on advertising to them would just further distance them from what most would call normative society.
Regardless of what people say they love advertising. They love the feeling of the advertisment going for them. To put it simply people love to be loved, and for us commercialization fills the role in many ways. People also love the fact that they know its not good for them. People have historically loved things that aren't good for them. Especially in the United States which has the highest drug prevelance of any western country. But even though these ad's fill our heads with total crab and feed our addictions its still necessary to protect the rights of advertising so as to fill our constitutional obligations.
In conclusion I think that teens have long been manipulated,cheated,screwed over, and I don't think thats going to stop any time soon. Therefore I don't think that banning advertising will do anything to stop the problem in fact I think it will just make it worse. Teens should be allowed to think for themselves. If there old enough to drive, fight in wars, and drop out of school then I think there old enough to handle some advertising and at least make some sort of judgement thats not pre-determined.