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They got sentenced for vandalizing irreplaceable art, not for ‘throwing soup’.
People who damage culturally significant, irreplaceable things to get attention for their cause deserve this kind of punishment or worse. They have the same mindset as the Taliban blowing up cliff carvings. And they lack the intelligence and creativity to bring attention to their cause without destroying things.
Do we need to fix our societies destruction of our own planet’s habitability? Yes without question. This isn’t the way.
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Boy you're going to hate to find out what oil companies are doing
Just because they are immeasurably worse doesn’t mean what these people did is ok.
Then how come they're not being put in jail?
Because they own significant portions of the government.
That's terrible! We should organize a protest.
Maybe we should stage a harmless but seemingly extreme act, to point out this hypocrisy and to bring attention to the cause 🤔
Well it seems like society and the justice system think it is okay then. So if the justice system says what they do is okay then how can you still have the opinion that it's just to punish people who poured soup on glass?