"What if Osama Bin Laden started calling himself an artist with pyrotechnical ambitions, or Saddam Hussein decided to make a sculpture out of the skulls of a few hundred thousand Kurds?"
That would be some pretty disturbing ART.
"Sometimes we need to place limits on art"
No we don't. We REALLY don't... You know, in some countries, you can't even express your own opinion. And this is all because of what one person or group of people thinks is right. Well, what if they did put limitations on art? There would be a LOT of pissed off people, that's what. "Sorry, your opinion is too harsh. I'm gonna have to not allow that." Then we would just be one of those countries with asshole governments whose opinions are right, and yours are wrong. We would be no different than Saddam.
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