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Re:What happens when you pour molten aluminium into an anthill? by StavrosK on Sunday February 21, 2016 @07:32AM (#11144255)
Bad taste yes, but bad taste is subjective. Morality (should be) objective, so it's one thing to say "I don't like this" (I don't like it either), and another thing to say "nobody should like this".
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Re:What happens when you pour molten aluminium into an anthill? by goldenkey on Sunday February 21, 2016 @07:38AM (#11144273)
Morality isn't black and white. It's somewhat bad to be killing ants but let's not say it's on the same level as killing sentient life. It's just a rather shitty thing to do.
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Re:What happens when you pour molten aluminium into an anthill? by StavrosK on Sunday February 21, 2016 @09:25AM (#11144577)
The issue here isn't whether or not to kill ants (we're killing them anyway), it's whether it's immoral to make art out of their nests.
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Re:What happens when you pour molten aluminium into an anthill? by goldenkey on Sunday February 21, 2016 @10:38AM (#11144876)
Considering the very thing that is the object of beauty, it seems perverse to have destroyed it and its forebearers in entirety to produce it. Something akin to a buffoon's take on art.
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