Shanna: Owners of any work of art, simply by virtue of ownership, ethically have the right to destroy that artwork if...

Emil-Kunkin on May 27 at 01:47PM

For A we know both of their positions, and we know they must disagree. S tells us that if one finds art they own distasteful, one is justified in destroying it, so therefore destroying the bad portrait would be justifiable. J however tells us that for a unique work (which it appears a portrait of one's father would be), it must be preserved, and thus it is not ethical to destroy t
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We can't pin their positions both down for D however. We know that S is fine with destruction, but J is silent as to pieces that are not unique. He only tells us that his principle of preserving applies to unique works, and since we are told the sculpture is not unique in D, we cannot be sure what j would think.