06-18-2008, 10:56 PM
I've heard about this, and signed a petition against him doing this again.
I was disgusted and enraged that so many people stood by and watched as a poor creature was forced to starve and die. If I was there, I would have called management, or taken the dog myself.
Vargas should not be allowed to recreate this stunt. It's animal cruelty. Not art.
I don't think it was really all planned out. He probably took advantage of people's emotions as they formed, and turned them to his advantage.
It's so wrong, and is not art in any way. Though, how far can art go before harming people, I'm not sure. Art is in some way bound to offend someone at some time. I'm sure there are people out there who don't like the Mona Lisa. But when a mass amount of people are against a form of expression, there must be something ethically wrong with what the artist is doing to express their views.
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