On The Moral Justification For Attacking Art

Roger Kimball sympathizes with the Israeli ambassador to Sweden who attacked a piece of art in Stockholm last weekend. But was he justified in attacking it? “I think not. His outrage at “Snow White” was understandable, even exemplary, but he should not have destroyed or defaced the exhibition. There were many steps open to him short of violence. To vandalize an art work–even a bad art work, even a morally reprehensible art work–is to adopt the tactics of the enemies of culture.”