There are some commercials I’ve seen on television a few times (those rare few times I’m watching live TV, mostly games) from Liberty Mutual that disturb me to no end. They show people doing nice things for people… a woman pulls a guy back to the curb and saves him from a car… a postman helps a guy working on his house steady a ladder… some girl picks up trash and puts in a bin… another lady helps some movers life a couch off a truck. The tagline is “When people do the right thing, they call it being responsible. When it’s a home insurance company, they call it Liberty Mutual.”
I immediately think, “Those people aren’t being responsible, they are just being nice. They have no duty to help any of those other people… and in fact, in some of those situations they are exposing themselves to liability by helping in the first place.”
*sigh*
Shouldn’t all insurance companies do the right thing?
Shouldn’t we ALL do the right thing?
Here’s a tagline: “We’re not soulless crooks.”
Hm.
Holy crap.
I thought the exact. same. thing.
You must be at some far away ashram.