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Rationally, sure, that's the better way - destroying art, records and evidence is something enemies of open societies do. Emotionally, I can identify with peop
by uniqueuid 5y ago
Rationally, sure, that's the better way - destroying art, records and evidence is something enemies of open societies do.
Emotionally, I can identify with people who feel that those who have proudly sown human misery do not deserve to rest in golden frames.
[edit] As OP mentioned, many have shown the other side of war; Grosz, Dix, Goya (https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/may/14/art-apocalypse-otto-dix-first-world-war-der-krieg-in-pictures https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2014/may/14...)
- ksdale 5y agoI feel like that is equally an argument against like, horror movies existing. Just because art depicts something doesn't mean it endorses it (it may have endorsed it when it was made, but we don't have to blindly accept their values). I can emotionally identify with people who think that sowers of human misery are bad, but not with people who think art should be destroyed for what it depicts.