> I honestly don't see a difference except in degree (and hence in jail time I'd prefer to see resulting from actions based on each of the attitudes, roughly 15 days and 15 years, respectively.)
Except for that thing about human rights and dignity, the violation of which is fundamental to the reason why there's jail time for transgressing upon it.
Whereas ads are... really just ads, as long as we don't have anything equivalent for them.
What if I wear something terribly ugly according to a street artist and he throws a pie at me?
What if I paint the walls of my house and a street artist decides my taste is intolerably poor and sprays the walls?
What if I own a shop and advertise something in that painting and it gets sprayed?
What if it's a corporation who puts up the ad?
What if a guy (say Bill G) runs a corporation that someone dislikes and throws a pie at them (as someone in fact did?)
What if someone doesn't like seeing women or people of color on ads and sprays them? (a real-life situation)
Where's the line - when are you free to act in public disregarding others? I for one would imaginably prefer a pie thrown into my face to having something I painted on a wall sprayed over. Why is the former a question of "dignity" while the latter isn't? Is it because corporations have no dignity? What about a model whose image is altered by misogynists - is she entitled to "dignity"?
I think that being too particular about rights ("ads are just ads" hence not covered by rights etc.) is the way to lose all the rights.
(By the same token - not being too particular - all the cases above should cost the perpetrator the same IMO, 15 days of detention, tops I'd guess, although the guy throwing the pie at Bill Gates is much less scary to me than the ad-spraying misogynists; unless you manage to prove the latter constitutes hate speech or such.)
Except for that thing about human rights and dignity, the violation of which is fundamental to the reason why there's jail time for transgressing upon it.
Whereas ads are... really just ads, as long as we don't have anything equivalent for them.