Why complain about something you don't use?

[Mecky]

Because some people take pleasure out of trying to control the lives of others.

 

Yes you do, don't you

[Cyclone]

Ok so the solution you want is for it to stop. If everybody stopped buying papers with page 3 in and women stopped applying for jobs as glamour models then the paper would go out of circulation. Simple capitalist principle of supply and demand (not really a difficult concept to grasp is it, its like voting but with your money).

 

Presumably the people who are complaining already don't use the service/purchase the goods in question, but sometimes more than that is required.

 

To extend your argument and use a historical example, Americans of the North (and some of the South) could have simply refused to buy slaves. But that wouldn't have ended the slave trade. They felt strongly enough about the issue that capitalism wasn't going to solve it and only by force could they correct the wrong that was ongoing.

 

Obviously whether starbucks has a shop on every corner or whether the sun runs topless photos isn't such an important issue, but for some people it goes beyond simply boycotting it.

[Cyclone]

These things are banned for a reason for the harm and damage they cause. Page 3 models are not being exploited they are paid hansomly for doing very little work.

This is an argument you should have with those people who do propose banning it. Clearly they disagree.

 

The Sun newspaper is baught by the law abiding majority

Majority? Sure those who buy it are law abiding, but what majority do they form?

who clearly do not see a need for page 3 to be banned.

 

I do belive in banning things but only when it causes harm. Seeing a pair of breasts does not cause harm.

Was this really what you wanted to argue about? If so, why not argue about it instead of making a more general post having failed to consider all the possibilities where the market is insufficient to regulate the behaviour (examples like DaFoot provided, or my more extreme slave trade example).