Guggenheim, Bowing to Animal-Rights Activists, Pulls Works From Show

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35. That's according to you but not me

I'm open to the possibility that Chinese culture doesn't even give a second thought to the morality of treating dogs in this manner.


I think everyone is completely misunderstanding my point. I LOVE dogs. I own two dogs (both adopted from rescues). I base my walks on where I can pet dogs. This is not about my moral view. This is about accepting that these particular Chinese artists come from a background where dogs are not thought of in the same way we think of them. If an American artist did this, I would be the first to want to lock his/her sorry ass up. But this is a Chinese artist from China. I am not going to blame the artist just because he/she was not raised in a culture that does not support views similar to my own. And I am not going to condemn the culture either. What I will support is the promotion of ethical treatment of animals where there is none. So I am completely allied with these new groups springing up in China (described in the article I posted earlier) that are educating the country about animal welfare.