--> if the primary purpose of art is to reflect beauty and moral truth
--> and if beauty and truth are associated with one another
--> but violence, as ugliness, implying its antithesis, and the consumption of violent art as therefore a yearning towards beauty and righteousness via its opposite
--> then violence, in art, can only be meaningful precisely because we think it is wrong to hurt
--> therefore it is perfectly concordant with moral aspiration to consume violent art
--> we should consume violent art
Nov 29, 2017
Nov 29, 2017 at 4:07 PM UTC
--> if the primary purpose of art is to reflect beauty and moral truth
--> and if beauty and truth are associated with one another
--> but violence, as ugliness, implying its antithesis, and the consumption of violent art as therefore a yearning towards beauty and righteousness via its opposite
--> then violence, in art, can only be meaningful precisely because we think it is wrong to hurt
--> therefore it is perfectly concordant with moral aspiration to consume violent art
--> we should consume violent art
