But even if it's a stupid product, most ad people don't have to devote too big a part of their lifetime trying to sell it. One of my clients was an umbrella company. The guy I dealt with was the sales director. But basically, the guy was an umbrella salesman. Don't get me wrong.
Umbrellas are certainly an important and necessary part of society.
I just wouldn't want to devote my life to selling them. When I bring up the incident he confesses to a lack of recollection. I was, I recall the scene. You said that it's the government's role to determine which products should or shouldn't be advertised and that as long as a product is legal it's the agency's responsibility to do the very best job possible to advertise its clients' products. He goes on to say how we all must be willing to accept more social responsibility for the decisions we make in business.