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@jeffowski This is why I find the advertising of a certain popular energy drink evil.
@twobiscuits -- Not ALL advertising? It is the grandfather of loot boxes and algorithms in games to maximize their profit.
@jeffowski Also, being afraid of Brown people is not a valid fear. It's manufactured to redirect fears the con artists aren't able to confront. It's essentially "you're not afraid of that, you're afraid of this, and I can solve this if you'd let me."
@jeffowski Correct. This is the conman's playbook: State a few pieces of malinformation (information which is technically not wrong but deliberately misleading); that's the "real concerns" part - then have them lead to a switch-and-expand consequence / "solution" that has nothing to do with the preceeding "concerns" & is as non-specific as possible in favor of the con.
See also the Motte & Bailey fallacy, which it's closely related to if not just a variation of.