&gt; If you could choose to live your life and never see another advertisement, would you?<p>I don&#x27;t particularly value advertising, I can take it or leave it, and mostly ignore it altogether.<p>&gt;If the answer is yes, then we agree.<p>Not necessarily. The premise that no one should be allowed to advertise anything smacks a bit of thoughtcrime. How &quot;general&quot; does &quot;advertisement in general&quot; have to be? Only for-profit products and services, or would advertising by non-profit organizations be banned as well? Would no one running for office be allowed to communicate their platform with the public? Would stores have to remove the signs from their storefronts?<p>&gt;When was the last time you saw an ad for anything and it changed your life more than marginally?<p>Who said the purpose of advertising was to change your life? If that&#x27;s your margin for what should be allowed and what not, then most forms of human expression and art have only marginally changed most people&#x27;s lives. We could dispense almost everything besides popular culture.