The important point about direct response is that it should not just be advertising with an 0800 number

If the public looks at the condition of America's children largely through a negative lens, worries Child Trends[…], it may be more difficult to […] promote child well-being.

... every statute in the Bible and in the law books is an attempt to defeaat a law of God—in other words an unalterable and indestructible law of nature.

No self-complacency can equal that of the selfish. Not content with its indulgence, they actually idolise it into being praiseworthy.