READ AND THEN ANSWER Public advertisements, as commercial men know if they are clear headed, and honest, are, on the whole, anti-social. It is good for private interests and bad, on the whole for public interests. Much of its purpose is to push the sale of brand things like patent medicines, which are bad for the public, or things like this soap or that beer, which are no better or no worse for the public than any other thing of the same sort.

Public advertisements are anti social because:

a. They prevent socializing among people

b. They stifle originality

c. They are against the interests of society

d. They are of no material value.