Why do people say that graffiti is art and yet say that it should not be
legal?
Graffiti is illegal because it is vandalism; it is done without the
consent of the owner to write on their wall. The problem of every graffiti
artist is their canvas or place where they are painting, because the main idea
of graffiti is writing on walls not on the traditional canvas so it leads to
vandalism. Vandalism is a crime and if caught doing it you have to face the
consequences like jail time. Why would the police put a person in jail for
years just for simple crime? Why can't they just give them community work or
other stuff?
I've looked for some articles regarding on support for graffiti,
fighting for their rights to write and this is one of the article I've
found: "Should
graffiti be legal?" In this website www.debate.org they asked a question
that if graffiti should be legal and the majority said "Yes." They've
all agreed that graffiti is a form of art and should not be restricted, even
the ones who said "No" agreed that graffiti is art but they just
don't agree on its ways which is vandalism.
Here’s another article, "Graffiti:
Art or a Crime?" In this article written by Anthony it that tackles on
giving the writers alternative punishments because being put to jail for years
is a very harsh thing to give to a simple crime, and it is also said that the
population of graffiti. Did you know that 85% of the written graffiti are tags
and 10% are gang related activities? Maybe that is the reason why officials
decided that the punishment is jail time because it is stocked in their minds
that all writers are members of gangs.
Graffiti is getting really popular these days and many people are now in
to making graffiti, and also graffiti is now being considered as art which is
also called street art. Yet some people think that it is still a low kind of
action to be noticed and be popular, but what do they not know is that graffiti
writers do graffiti is to express their feelings regarding to their life,
politics and other stuff; they express it artistically through writing on walls
using spray paints as their mediums.
In conclusion, if graffiti is now getting popular and many are now
recognizing it, authorities should make an action to this situation because
they can’t stop graffiti from spreading; if they try to erase one graffiti
piece another one will just show up. One thing authorities can do is to assign
places where graffiti writers can write freely, by doing these things this can
limit the graffiti writers from writing on private walls.
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