This comment feels like you're trying to replace my own perception and judgement about advertising with your own. Are you committing psychic violence by trying to persuade me?
Honestly, I don't see why advertising is any more abusive than any other unsolicited opinion or attempts at persuasion by people one sees in every day life. It is far easier to ignore a billboard than a protest or a beggar or an evangelist.
Advertising is mostly carried out by for-profit institutions, using techniques that abuse or take advantage of the human mind, and at a significant scale. If you can't distinguish evangelism from modern-day advertising, then right now I'm also committing psychic violence.
Honestly, I don't see why advertising is any more abusive than any other unsolicited opinion or attempts at persuasion by people one sees in every day life. It is far easier to ignore a billboard than a protest or a beggar or an evangelist.