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Thread #110680 Message #2324580
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
24-Apr-08 - 03:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Starving a dog to death publicly = art?
Subject: RE: BS: Starving a dog to death publicly = art?
"there's really no implication that the artist was "more concerned with the fate of starving dogs than the fate of starving children"."
The Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) was founded six decades before the National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) - 1824 as opposed to 1884.
The majority of people will 'not hear', or gloss over reports of children dying in their hundreds, but if one fluffy, dewy-eyed doggie gets kicked, those same people will be up in arms.
I'm not advocating animal abuse, and certainly not in the so-called name of "art" - far from it; but I am suggesting that maybe some need to sort their priorities.