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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8744660" data-attributes="member: 6855114">In an enlightened society,  an artist should never have to fear for his/her/their security because of their art. And for the rest, a piece of art, be it a paint, a starter, a book or piece of music should always be judge for what it is. A piece of its time and judged by the standards of its time. Yep, you can compare it to more modern standard and sometimes that piece of art will be considered ahead of its time, sometimes it will be seen as backward and even offensive. But whatever your stance on it, it should be judge by the standards of its time. Any other analysis is worthless as what is acceptable or not changes from culture to culture and era to era. And what you find offensive in a book, might be seen as trivial or even non existent for the vast majority of those aware of the art you are judging. As I said earlier, as soon as you try to analyse a piece of art, you can only judge it by the standards of its time. Some words can get new meaning for some fringed group and a novel written 20 years prior without that word meaning anything offensive suddenly finds itself to be edgy, grim and offensive through no faults of its author. Would that mean that the book, suddenly being offensive should be banned? Burned? Hell no! Mein Kempf, though one of the most disgusting book ever written, is still printed and sold. Keep the book, sell it and use it as a thing to show what can happen when society changes, slides off or whatever. And I will end on this thing:" What we find revolting today might become quite acceptable in a single decade from now."You might not agree but it has happened time and time again. One analysis does not mean it is right. No matter how many people back it up. There will always be others that will be able to prove that the 1st analysis is wrong and a third and fourth and a.... that will show something else entirely.</blockquote>

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