You're damn right we need to fight that perception and cartoon labels ain't helping any! Whatever, dude. Uncle...
I don't think anyone is missing your point that cartoon labels play into one of the more damaging lies that is being told. You're absolutely right about that, and it's clear that Dr. JJ chose them specifically to drive home the lie that she wished to relay.
But, if we are prepared and mature enough, as a community, to fight this war, we need to look at things like cartoon labels as an opportunity. In fact, we need to view every lie they tell as an opportunity to dispel it, and, in doing so, prove them to be the liars that they are.
Yes, it's a difficult battle to fight, but it needs to be fought. If we don't fight the lie of using cartoon labels for marketing to children, then they stand a better chance of winning the battle of the lie about flavors, and colors, and...whatever...to market to children.
Lessifer, I believe it was, made an interesting but somewhat controversial point, a few hundred pages back, about the danger of acquiescing on the regs about child-proof packaging, content labeling, and age restrictions.
Now, of course, most (all?) seem to think all three of those things are good ideas, and found the idea of fighting them absurd. But, the thing is, somewhere around 99% of the industry self-imposed those items, already. Common-sense, left to its own devices, prevailed, and we got those three important things prior to any regulation telling us we had to.
The point being made in fighting the regulation, though, was that accepting those things as mandatory, was tacit admission that the products we're talking about are "bad", and need to be controlled.
Allowing the enemy just that one issue legitimizes their self-awarded mandate to be engaged in their fight against us. Allowing them to demand childproof packaging, age restrictions, and content labeling establishes them as the good-guys in this, engaged in a just fight against us, the bad-guys.
In fighting the long-war, we're going to take a lot of blows, and each is going to hurt, but you have to look at every punch your adversary throws as an opening that they left in their defenses...and exploit it by hitting them back, harder.
just passed a measure to tax the medical stuff, supposedly to fund after school programs. I of course voted against it. I wonder how those voters would feel if their Pain/antidepressant/nausea/whatever else medications were being taxed.
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