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Machiavellian on 06 September 2018
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KLAMarine said:

Machiavellian said:

Does that mean if you do not die, you have not sacrifice anything.  Or are you saying you must serve in the military in order to be considered sacrificing anything.  Just wondering because anytime I hear someone talk about sacrificing something they throw in pictures like this.  I guess the rest of us must be trash then if this is what it really means to sacrifice.

To give ones life for a cause many would consider 'sacrificing everything'. Of course, just because you don't give up your life doesn't mean you're trash, it just means you were only willing to go so far.

Going back to the Nike ad, I find the wording unfortunate. Did Colin really 'sacrifice everything' when he's got a big marketing deal with a huge corporation like Nike?

I could say more but I'll leave it at that for now...

Yes giving your life is the ultimate sacrifice but it's not the only one.  Using one extreme doesn't disqualify another.  I remember when this first came out and a friend of mine asked me what did I think about the whole thing.  I told him that I do not believe Kap understand where he is going and where it would end.  I told him I wonder if Kap is committed to what he believes because the end result will be him getting fired, whatever he is protesting about will be turned to something else and that any message he will try to present will be twisted to represent what people want to hear not what he wants to say.

As to did Colin sacrifice everything, depends.  Just because he got a marketing deal with Nike now doesn't mean he did not sacrifice anything before.  The key will be where does he go next.  Do he really want to take the next step.

As for Nike, this is very interesting choice for them and I know they had to do the numbers before going with Kap.  I would love to have been in the meeting when this was brought up.