The end of all things

A father whose son was hung in a washroom, asphyxiated and died is campaigning to have a Dairy Queen commercial pulled off the air. It shows 2 boys being hung up on hooks by their underwear (a la atomic wedgie). DQ said in deference to their understanding of that specific families tragedy they would stop showing it in South western Ontario. The faher says this is not enough and it must be pulled entirely.

Are you freaking kidding me? I mean, are we serious about this?
There are certain places that we must never go even for the almighty buck. Making fun of the holocaust, african americans in the 50-70's, JFK, Jim jones etc. But this is because hundreds, thousands and sometimes millions of lives were affected by tragedy.

But to pull a commercial because one family is distraught?? What if we start pandering to everyone who has a problem with advertisements?

-The hilariously funny Mac-Pc ones get pulled because the PC guy reminds someone of the father who molested them?
-McDonalds has to stop because they do not understand the plight of people who have severe phobias of clowns
-All car commercials because it is insulting to the blind
-Tim Hortons because someone's mother died from a sever allergic reaction to caffeine

Have we become such a society where the mental happiness of one supercedes the happiness of the masses? ( I am not saying that advertisements make anyone happy, but we have all had a good chuckle at one time. And they do provide a service no matter how annoying. How else would you know where to buy that pair of glasses on sale?)
That boy dying is a tragedy. I understand that the family must feel awful watching that commercial. But one has to remember.....
They did not make that commercial based on that boys death! A team of people thought long and hard and did a lot of research into that commercial. They obviously found enough people during their testing that would enjoy it.
It would not surprise me if we find out that this father eventually sues DQ for mental anguish or some other such crap. And then perhaps we will know the real reason for his pitching a fit.

Have we become so self involved that a simple commercial will ruin our lives? Because it insults us or reminds us of somethign awful? Have we gone so far into the hole of 'I am the most important' that we completely ignore that these things are not directed at us personally?

When i read that article i was disgusted. Instead of taking that commercial and using it as an example for his fight against 'useless' deaths, he instead decides to fight to have it removed. Ignoring that 'useless' deaths happen all the time. He ironically brougt more attention to the commercial than it otherwise would have gotten. It would have lived its life and passedinto obscurity in a few weeks. Now people are going to go out of their way to watch it.How the hell does that help his cause?

Or, he could just not watch the damn tv. Last i looked their were no commercials in a freaking book.