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Originally Posted by JBroll  Save his own image? The guy also had an exhibit where he burned rocks of crack cocaine and played the Sandinista anthem backwards.
You're assuming cruelty, thanks to a misleading first impression, and not owning up to it. You're assuming that he tortured it, and not explaining how. All you have is first impressions and gut reactions. And while you defend the petitions, you neglect that things like this also get people on the boat to do something - the petition is just a feel-good trinket with no real legal power.
You'd rather keep slamming the guy, though, just because it's easier to rest on those assumptions, and making a slippery-slope argument that's just absurd - "Well, that guy chained a dog up and made people think it was starving to death... that makes anything I can do all right!" - anyone who would go with that logic is fucked already.
I'm not saying it's okay, I'm saying it's a wake-up call and a very important event. I honestly think this will be read about in textbooks years down the road, so long as people actually get the real message and not the lies spread by people who had no objection to make unqualified statements and sticking to them to save face. The director of the show said that the dog was unchained for all but the three hours of the exhibit, and he's torturing it. He feeds it, but he's a bastard for not adopting a pet he (as an artist who obviously goes around) wouldn't be able to take care of anyway.
You fail for making unsubstantiated claims and holding inconsistent standards. How many bloody times does one goddamned faulty assumption have to be contested before people stop believing everything they read in chain letters?
Jeff |
We live in a society where somethings are just not right to do. This was one of them, no matter what the message was or how he went about doing it. You justifying his actions in this matter is completely ridiculous. You admit you don't think it's okay, but you defend him.
You can say what you'd like about him. Praise him for sending this so called message all you'd like. But it still will not change my, or many others opinion of him.
I have not made any sort of claim in my statements of disgust with him. I have only put across my point that his message was sent in the wrong way and that what he did was cruel, no matter how little cruelty you say was involved.