I was just tuning in to watch The Walking Dead … gotta see the zombies … and they keep annoying me with these commercials peddling “gold” coins: a $50 value, yours for only $9.95, and they are genuine 24K gold (plated), containing a whole 14 milligrams of gold. I checked gold prices, did a quick estimation, and figured out nearly instantly that that amounts to … about 75 cents worth.
Wow. That’s quite a racket. Shouldn’t there be something illegal about taking advantage of stupid people that excessively?
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2012/03/18/so-thats-the-tax-on-stupid/
Realist - Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same -- hardihood. Give them raw truth.