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by endisneigh 998 days ago
You presented a very concrete set of attributes that you call immoral.

> Words in general are not specifically crafted by teams of sociologists, psychologists, and marketing professionals to elicit a particular feeling at a particular moment in time to make me more psychologically susceptible to a particular belief or outcome

I have presented something, journalism, that does the same things. You claim that some journalism is not immoral which is true. It must follow for the same reason that some advertisements are not immoral either.

Seems like you don't have an actual argument - posting on a Y Combinator MARKETING page, no less.