Assignment Instructions/ Description
First, view this week's documentary using the link below:
The Persuaders (Links to an external site.)
Before answering the question below please consider from the documentary what Clotaire Rapaille says about the effects of advertising on the reptilian brain and the implications of predictive data collection by companies like the Acxiom Corporation.
Then, please read the link titled, Making Arguments II, on evidence in Canvas and also follow carefully the directions there.This forum requires three postings in all -- one reply to the forum question and two replies to classmates.
QUESTION:
If a free choice is a choice made without any influence from anything except our own will deciding to take this or that direction than do any of us ever make a completely free choice? In today's world so dominated by powerful influences like the advertising industry, how can we be absolutely certain that any choice we have made has been an entirely free one?
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