These posters saying things such as "The disabled only cost us money" are obviously designed to provoke some kind of discussion, and will, I hope, as the campaign develops, turn into something more positive, but I can't help feeling it's in rather bad taste.
Latest rumours suggest that it could be the disability insurance sector behind them. Whether that makes them any better is also open to debate.
I saw one of these today! It said 'Arretons de payer pour les handicapes' (Let's stop paying for the disabled) - and was on a billboard RIGHT IN FRONT OF a disabled parking space in a car park.
And I mean 'right in front of', like a parking buffer, not something on a wall 50m away.
I'm all for free debate and broaching difficult conversations, but I think this particular poster placement crossed a line.
kodokan
Edit: This was just outside Morges, near Lausanne.
This campaign is pretty disturbing. Like others have siad, I hope it's a bizarre teaser that will produce something positive eventually.
I wouldn't be too worried about the disabled driver being accosted by the poster, though. My observation is that only about 10% of the drivers who park in handicapped spaces appear to have some form of handicap. I feel like yelling at the others, "What's your handicap? Mental disability?"
Cool. I can't wait for the "Old people cost too much, let's grind up up and use them as cat-food" posters to appear. Maybe I can get a job with this ad agency?
That's actually really shocking... imagine how you would feel as a disabled person, rolling into a car park and told how much of a drain on society you were... as if they're not going to feel bad enough about their disability in every day in life without having their noses rubbed in it and suffering such overt discrimination. Very, very sad.
How much we spend on the extreme elderly is a valid issue, as I stated in my original post. In many Western countries, where the age distribution is skewing towards the elderly, we will soon have to make some tough decisions on how to spend our health dollars; it's not some infinite pool. And for my generation and the one following, who are already suffering from paying the debts of the previous generation that racked in the debts, it's all gonna catch up fast. That's unless climate change kicks us in the ass first.
But back to offensive posters. Of the paper kind, not ones on this forum.
Refering to a poster campaign which is provocative in word use and offends many, but on a less provocative level has a valid theme. It is maybe intended to use shock value to force more people to think about the issues.
Not sure if the 'god' campaign made it to Switzerland, but it did make it to many countries in the world.
Posters questioning intellectual/religious beliefs are very different than making someone feel ****** about the social expense of their disability (which is not a choice on their part).
In my book anyways, excuse the pun.
Anyways, God doesnt exist, so don't see the big deal.