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HAB911

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13. They could not care less?

Reply to LanternWaste (Reply #8)

Tue Sep 26, 2017, 03:51 PM

Sep 2017

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Guggenheim, Bowing to Animal-Rights Activists, Pulls Works From Show [View all] Coventina Sep 2017 OP

This "art work" MAKES ME ILL. a kennedy Sep 2017 #1

The animals have no say in their participation -- Hell Hath No Fury Sep 2017 #2

I Question The Artistic Merit In The First Place ProfessorGAC Sep 2017 #3

Using live animals? rusty fender Sep 2017 #4

More info here. WillowTree Sep 2017 #5

The Chinese eat dogs HAB911 Sep 2017 #6

The precise relevance to the OP being...? LanternWaste Sep 2017 #8

They could not care less? HAB911 Sep 2017 #13

Highly inefficient. nt. Weekend Warrior Sep 2017 #11

And Americans eat factory farmed cows, pigs and chickens that suffer throughout their Ninsianna Sep 2017 #36

Meh, it's time for cultural relativism ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #7

How precisely does you rationalize the abuse of animals for mere art? LanternWaste Sep 2017 #9

I'm siding with the sentient, tortured beings, who happen to be non-human. MoonRiver Sep 2017 #10

What constitutes "torture" or "abuse" in China? ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #12

Torture and abuse are wrong no matter who does it. n/t Coventina Sep 2017 #14

These Chinese artists are not torturing and/or abusing nt ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #16

If You Say So ProfessorGAC Sep 2017 #18

Did the Chinese tell you that? ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #20

First Rule of Getting Out Of A Hole Is To Quit Digging ProfessorGAC Sep 2017 #21

So quit digging because you are wrong ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #23

Yes, they most certainly are. Coventina Sep 2017 #26

I do judge them. They are exterminating elephants to carve trinkets. MoonRiver Sep 2017 #17

3 billion people disagree with you. That's the point ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #19

Lol, my value judgment has everything to do with how I view their work! MoonRiver Sep 2017 #22

Would you go to China to view the art and then condemn it? ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #24

I don't eat meat, ever, no exceptions. MoonRiver Sep 2017 #25

Well, from one vegetarian to another ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #28

Dog fighting was common in the USA until about 40 years ago. Blue_true Sep 2017 #30

I don't respect them for that cruel attitude. MoonRiver Sep 2017 #31

As China has gotten a larger middleclass, citizens there are challenging Blue_true Sep 2017 #32

I don't care how many billions of people think torture is OK. It's not. Coventina Sep 2017 #27

Refer to post 24 ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #29

Morality is not relative. n/t Coventina Sep 2017 #33

That's according to you but not me ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #35

Causing an another creature harm in the name of entertainment is sick, culture is Coventina Sep 2017 #37

What do you want to do about it? ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #38

Cruelty is not "culture." Human beings from every culture have been guilty of it. I'm not "angry" Coventina Sep 2017 #39

kick for the afternoon crowd Coventina Sep 2017 #15

LOL, "What was the Guggenheim thinking?" Nevernose Sep 2017 #34