Moggy wrote:Yubel wrote:Moggy wrote:Squinty wrote:Ironhide wrote:While I agree with the message behind the protests, I think the acts of petty vandalism actively do damage to their cause by turning the general population against them.
I agree. You want to make people sympathetic to your cause. They aren't doing this.
People really care that much about some glass?
A Van Gogh painting - one of the most famous paintings in history - has nothing to do with this protest, surely. I don't care what their intentions are, that doesn't give you license to commit acts of vandalism.
EDIT: and additionally, even if the painting wasn't damaged, this is still anti-social behaviour worth condemning. We should be better than this.
The painting wasn't damaged.
Should've said "even though the painting wasn't damaged" as I didn't mean to suggest it was, just poor word choice on my part.
Moggy wrote:You say "we" should be better than this. Who is "we"? I know you don't mean me and you personally, but do you really think all of humanity thinks/acts the same way?
'We' as in anyone unable to condemn both those who are actively contributing toward our extinction
and those who would throw soup at a painting in a gallery. In a scenario where absolutely everyone falls into either category - whether that be knowingly accelerating the demise of the natural world or thinking that the ends justify the means, regardless of criminality - then we'd all be in the wrong, one way or the other.
Moggy wrote:Personally I wouldn't do anything like this, but it's not exactly a major crime that soup was poured on glass.
I'm pretty sure that, even if its not strictly a crime, any sane person would agree that this was an utterly dysfunctional move on their part.
Moggy wrote:It offends me far less than the way certain people refer to refugees.
As exemplified at the start of the post here, sometimes certain word choices manage to slip past regardless of intent. If you're looking for an antagonist to be conquered rather than a misunderstanding and subsequently misunder
stood individual, try looking elsewhere. Or better yet, take your false interpretation of me and make haste in tearing me to shreds rather than slowly wearing me down over it.