Friday, June 5, 2009

I'm a PC. (Perverted Corporation)

Have you seen this girl on TV?

Save the degenerate members of NAMBLA, most people would agree that you don't have sex with children. Besides the fact that you should hopefully be attracted to someone your own age, the fundamental premise that underlies this socially agreed upon covenant is that a child, being a CHILD, does not yet possess full autonomy. They can't make complex decisions, nor should they be expected to.

Richard Dawkins uses the same argument to show how no child can truly be called Catholic, Christian, Muslim, Jewish, or whatever, in his pro-atheist book, The God Delusion. He made his argument on the grounds that while children can be raised in ANY particular religious home, they are not actually part of that particular religion until much later in their life; when they CHOOSE it for themselves. Made sense to me.

I think we can all agree there is something sinister about using the impressionable nature of a child to sway him or her in a certain direction before they have a chance to choose their own path. Who would do such a thing?

I give you the "I'm A PC" ad campaign. In its most recent lame attempt to look cool, all I can figure is that upon realizing no sane, autonomous adult would choose a PC for themselves, Microsoft has followed in the tried and tested footsteps of the Preachers and Rapists before them, and begun targeting unsuspecting children in a bid to boost profits. Oh for shame.

Alright PC, if that's how you want to play it. Tsk tsk.


Mac:1

PC: nada

4 comments:

  1. Jason Jason Bo BasonJune 5, 2009 at 12:56 PM

    I agree, although I sometimes wonder if Dawkins' own children (if he has any, I don't know) aren't indoctrinated into atheism. He's pretty anti-religious -- me, I'm not religious at all, but I know Dawkins would happily call me a lunatic if he heard some of the things I consider to possible.

    Make mine a Mac!

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  2. I've got a sneaking suspicion that Steve Jobs molested you when you were 12.....and then told you his name was Bill Gates.

    eddie j

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  3. well, that would certainly explain A LOT

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  4. Haha, I agree with Eddie J? Also on another note, I think its funny that Eddie J is trying to resurrect that nickname.

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