The banishment of Ronald McDonald?

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Platapus

When the failure is a lack of responsibility, the solution is not to take responsibility away.

Exactly. I grow weary of the idea that society must always adapt to the most irresponsible or lazy.

I might have more sympathy with these busybodies if I believed for a millisecond that if McDonald's shuttered its doors and canceled its ads, people would stop being obese. However eliminating Big Macs, McMuffins and Quarterpounders won't make people any more virtuous, just as eliminating the clown won't make people more skinny. So I find extremely exasperating the request that businesses act more responsibly than we do ourselves.