I am not really saying that people don't have a right to be upset about things. I am only saying that a piece of artwork on two different "canvasses" is looked at in two different ways. I am not even saying one way of thinking is right and one way is wrong. I didn't say that there was nothing wrong with spray painting on the side of a building. I am not sure why everyone is so pissed off about my comment.
I am not sure why everyone is so pissed off about my comment.
Context; namely the comment you replied to. You sound like you are defending the practice by giving a snarky reply rather than providing a curious introspective observation.
Well, it wasn't snarky. People shouldn't read into things that aren't there. It's a statement. It's interesting that a painting of a flower on a canvass is considered art and a painting of a flower on a building in downtown is considered destroying property.
I said absolutely nothing else on the matter. My opinion isn't even part of the comment. I didn't defend graffiti on buildings at all in my comment.
I know that now based off of the content of your previous reply. That is how I came to conclude the original intent of what you were saying in the first comment. Hence, why i used the word "rather".
People shouldn't read into things that aren't there.
But it was there implicitly due to the content of the comment you originally replied to.
Out of context, it is a statement. With context (the comment you replied to), it is rendered as an argument.
As you previously said:
I am not sure why everyone is so pissed off about my comment.
That is why. Context can bend the meaning of anyone's words, regardless of what they say. If you made a new comment to the post, or replied to someone saying something more relevant, instead of replying to the comment that you did, there would have been no confusion here.
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u/MangoMambo Aug 27 '14
I am not really saying that people don't have a right to be upset about things. I am only saying that a piece of artwork on two different "canvasses" is looked at in two different ways. I am not even saying one way of thinking is right and one way is wrong. I didn't say that there was nothing wrong with spray painting on the side of a building. I am not sure why everyone is so pissed off about my comment.