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Originally Posted by Tchocky
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Originally Posted by The Avon Lady
Back to seriousness, a few years ago here they were broadcasting don't drive and drive commercials like
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Why they stopped broadcasting them I'll never understand.  |
An Irish company produced them, as far as I remember. I don't see why we need to spend thousands on pretty-looking ads that tell people what they already know, and ignore.
Trying to create a better society by implementing fear tactics is almost as bad as trying to educate people by using ignorance.
Shock tactics are just that, a shock without any sort of lesson. |
Too harsh, too authoritarian, to less liberal a reality for you again? As a psychologist I must tell you that you are wrong, and that we know from arranged experimnetal situations as well as from reality. Shock tactics, if only going deep enough, can replace a thousand words.
Easily.
but yes, it is kind of authoritarian, and reduces the subjects freedom in that situation. Big deal.
Or is it maybe that you even want to prevent prohibition drinking and driving in combination, because you like to practice that yourself and don't want to change your habits on weekend? smokers, I remember, also easily come with excuses about their personal right and free unfolding of their personality when they are confronted with prohibitions in places, and demands to pay for their smoke-related diseases all by themselves instead of demanding the public to pay for that. They also complain about too restrictive rules, and an authoritarian state, and lacking tolerance of non-smokers.
Countries using shock banners on cigarette boxes report good experiences with that. The quota of young people stopping to smoke and not even starting to smoke significantly rose. Traffic experts say that showing drivers of all age groups videos with horror crashes after they had been waved out of the traffic line, show far greater insight than those who are just being lectured in words. They even use to tour a truck with a simulator cabin which helps them to phyiscally experience the force that their body is confronted with when just having a low rate crash of 35-40 km. Most people are said to be shocked, and leave highly impressed, sometimes on shaky legs.
Shock therapy can work very well.