Reply #91: ok

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No, I don't have children. Maybe my feelings would be different if I did - I don't, and can't, know.

What I do know is that if we start down a trail of having an angry public decide what is and what is not acceptable within fine art, we're headed towards book burning. These things - historically - go hand-in-hand.

I don't think I'm an apologist. I just know enough about this to know that I don't know how to properly engage in a viable critique of this work. Because of that, I know that I have no business telling these folks how to do their job. If this one work were to be removed because of a knee-jerk reaction to it as non-art, then we would have to react to all such demands and the world would be a far worse place to live.

Ultimately, none of this has anything to do with how you live your live - what you think is acceptable for you or your children to view and take part in is your choice as it should be. This has nothing to do with that. If you want to keep things that way, don't you think you should let others do the same? If you're happy living in a world where YOU get to force your personal standards of taste and decency on a general public, you should have no problem living in a world where others get to tell you what is right and wrong for you and your family. I don't want that for anyone.