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persuasion is considered illegal and immoral when it involves lies and mis-direction. If it was more than that, you would have to out law all Advertisements... which is not necessarily a bad idea (^_^)
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I notice that you asked and ran. Nonetheless, I'll answer. I've thought about this a bit. Dale Carnegie once wrote a book, How to Win Friends and Influence People.
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I notice that you asked and ran. Nonetheless, I'll answer. I've thought about this a bit. Dale Carnegie once wrote a book, How to Win Friends and Influence People.
It is nothing more than psychological manipulation. It really depends on what you do with it. Some people do it quite naturally, without thinking.
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I think we each have to come to our own personal decisions on this.
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I think we each have to come to our own personal decisions on this.
It's a power used by personal means. However, if enough people become aware of it, it looses it effect a bit. Then the advertising moguls will just have to come up with some other coercive means to pry the last dollar out of your pocket. Sorry, but it's the angle I'm feeling tonight.
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What's Wrong With Motive Manipulation by Eric Cave
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What's Wrong With Motive Manipulation by Eric Cave
Consider manipulation in which one agent, avoiding force, threat, or fraud mobilizes some non-concern motive of another so as to induce this other to behave or move differently than she would otherwise have behaved or moved, given her circumstances and her initial ranking of concerns. As an instance, imagine that I get us to miss the opening of a play that I have grudgingly agreed to attend by engaging your sublimated compulsive tendency to check the stove when we are halfway to the theatre. Such motive manipulation is, I take it, widely regarded as morally worrisome. If it really is morally worrisome, then we should be able to explain adequately why it is so. But existing condemnations of manipulation come up short in this regard. In this paper, I develop and defend a more plausible account of the moral status of this phenomenon.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/p560646073104656/
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People who are very aware of others' body language/expressions end up being better communicators, or just better friends in general. But then again, some people who are very aware are also very manipulative and greedy....like business people...or those who do some type of work in the media...news stations...I mean, these people are everywhere. Honestly though, I don't even think a lot of people working in the media are even aware of how much influence they have. THAT is what scares me the most. It's like our world is becoming more and more manipulative, but people are becoming less and less aware.
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Perhaps just the same respect for others you would hope they would have for you if the tables were turned?
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Perhaps just the same respect for others you would hope they would have for you if the tables were turned?
I don't think either party is the winner when you use others as your psychological play-thing. The other is hurt if not violated, and that level of control over another is probably going to be very addictive.
I know one fellow who for whatever reasons, is quite good at psychological manipulation. He's to the point where he probably couldn't stop even if he wanted to and aside from a few 'friends' whom he only marginally manipulates, he's a lonesome old prick.
People just don't like being around those who are using them.
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When I was younger I found that I was pretty good at manipulating people. All you need to do is piss them off then make them think they're denying you what you want, and they'll jump at it. But after a while, despite generally using this for good instead of evil, I decided not to do it anymore. These days, I don't have such a hard rule about not doing it, but I have to have lost all respect for someone in order to deliberately manipulate them into doing something.
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