You have to admit the toys are a real nice bit of conditioning on the part of McDonalds.
What I don't understand is that when people have tantrums over this sort of thing, but have absolutely no qualms about letting private corporations do the same to them. For instance, Kid really wants the toy. Through advertising etc the kid is convinced they must have it (all their friends got one etc). So he nags the parents until they relent. Then McDonalds for the cost of some advertising and cheap plastic gets 4 or 5 sales out of it. In addition to the positive reinforcer of the toy, the kid gets a sugar rush (positive hedonic reinforcer) from the soft drink and the carbs in the food, so he's more likely to want to come back again. So you have no problem with this sort of conditioning, but you do have a problem with the local government wanting to limit the consumption of flavoured sugar water and useless carbohydrates in a very open manner, unlike what McDonald's does. On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Law curbs McDonald's Happy Meal > toys<http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101103/us_nm/us_mcdonalds_toys> > > > Excerpt: > > San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks > down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy > restaurant meals for children. > > > Heaven forbid that you just tell your kid no. They'll just make the > decision for you. > > > J > > - > > "Nutrition is not a private matter!" - Hitler Youth Manual > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:331035 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
