Blatant use of scare tactics in the college I go to.
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There's a poster up in my college which is blatantly trying to use scare tactics to discourage drugs and the like by comparing it to a real accident.
Which is all fine and good, but...
There is one small logical flaw which disbands every shred of genuinty this poster is trying to pull together.
There's a photo of a women who just got rescued from an accident, (around our age, obviously try to relate this back to us again.) which they claim came around due to substance abuse.
Problem is, the women's quote is "Drinking or drugs lead me to these severe injuries."
Or? What's that supposed to mean?
It's obviously not a generalization, otherwise she would have adressed us and not herself!
That's like getting a post-mortem back from your doctor with him stating that "Your son killed himself by jumping of the top of a building or shooting himself in the face." Both are two totally different things!
If this was real she would have at least said that she got there by taking
drugs AND drinking, at least then it makes sense!
Where is the credability in this scare campaign of theirs? I don't care if it's for a good cause, they should at least be resonable about this. I hate it when people try to condescend to you by using bullshit scare stories. That is possibly the worst way to get a rationalized decision out of people. It's a known fact that people can't properly rationalize while they're in a state of fear. If you use this against people you are obviously just being a flat-out bastard. Which is a shame because there is a point they really could have driven home there. It is proven that drug abuse affects your reaction times for the worst. If they could put this proof foward chances are a lot more people would be sold. It would have been a bit cliched, yes, but that way there would still be a valid point to take away from it.
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Anti-drug/alcohol propaganda is always retarded, I guess because it's so hard to convince teens (who, a lot of do drink) to stop, and they don't really have much left to say that teens haven't heard 1,000,000 times. Plus, what would be more concerning, a poster saying "Alcohol will kill a few brain cells over a long period of time" or "Drinking will make you stupid and ruin your career"?
