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how long before 'offensive' art is banned
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i can see it within a year or 2
the running man is gonna true i tell thee
i can see it within a year or 2
the running man is gonna true i tell thee
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Bring on the Ramones I say! "The KKK took my baby away ......."
scary.
I think it depends. Look at the danish cartoons. They might be freedom of thought or freedom of speech - but they obviously did offend a lot of people. Whether they should be banned is a cotroversial debate for lots of reasons, and I would prefer that people would recognise when they are doing something potentially offensive and make sure to either not publish it (the danish cartoonist did apologise, so evidently didnt realise the scale of the offense that would be caused) or give an explanation behind its meaning, as the painter above has, rather than just leave it like that.
Art is a very powerful medium of expression, and you can throw your expression in people's faces fairly easily - I could put a picture on my livejournal or even on here and lots of people would see it. But there is so much scope for misinterpretation I think art can be 'dangerous' to some extent.
If there was obviously racist / sexist / hateful 'art' up somewhere very public, do you think it should stay there or be removed?
they only became offensive long after ...when they were taken out of context by some islamic radicals with the sole agenda of causing serious problems.
cos as long as we can sit in comfort discussing these things ...we will be slowly aneasthetizing ourselves into believing we are free.
Which is precisely what I mean when I say:
I mean, look at guns. They're not strictly dangerous, people can use them for sport, or whatever else, but they're banned because they can and are used as weapons. Now they're not a great comparitive example as guns by defintion are weapons were art is a medium of expression.
I dont want art banned by any means, but what do you do about the few who do use it as a 'weapon' so to speak? What about those few who use their tongues as weapons to attack people? We arrest people in the UK and can imprison them for inciting people to violence through just words. So should there be limitations on other forms of expressions as well?
the countryside people suddenly had all these guns taken off them ...with everyone ignoring the warnings.
make guns illegal ... and government looses control ...to the extent that law abiding people can't have them but criminals can.
what happened?
the streets have now filled up with guns ...all in the wrong hands.
Death kills people.
Gun control is good... but outright banning is a bit too far.
making it all illegal ...means no gun control.
Exactly.
The Tax Man?
Your more likely to be injured, stolen from, harmed or harrassed by someone from the government than ANY other event or cause.
Let's go now! ALL WITH ME!
Oh for god's sake not more of you with weapons.
Can't you just put them down and let me get on with it?
Let you get on with what? Being ruled by a bunch of idiots? What folk don't get is... they won't go away, unless they are removed. Your washing up doesnt go away, does it?
i find it quite scary to be honest just how many people the world over are picking up weapons and using them.
are we heading for a new barbarism?
man against man ...brother against brother?
History is FULL of people ignoring things until they are too late. Let's not do it again, eh?