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Originally Posted by Bill O'Rights
"Howard Rosenberg, said cutting off the thumbs of taggers won't solve the problem"
Well, actually...I mean beyond how incredibly barbaric and wrong it is...cutting their thumbs off would solve the problem of taggers.
A.) It's incredibly hard to hold a can of spraypaint without a thumb.
B.) Do it publicly, say...twice...maybe three times, and potential "taggers" are gonna go; "Oooh...maybe I might wanna rethink tonights activity agenda"
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uhhh no. Cutting off their thumbs would be like spanking a child for catching them in the cookie jar. You're not showing the correct action, you're just punishing the bad action. The kid's just going to get sneakier getting the cookie out of the jar- Graffiti writers will just find validation from the punishment.
Graffiti is about a few things: Social protest, Rebellion, Fame, and Art. Commited writers have been lamenting how graffiti is becoming a mainstream marketing device for major corporations. It's "fashionable". This is so hypocritical considering how graffiti was an anti-social act. It's even moved past being just a counter-culture market icon, but a mainstream one as well.
If Vegas did something so ridiculous as cutting thumbs off taggers, I would say you would see two trends in vegas- first a decline in casual, poor graffiti, and second a rise in high profile/visible peices done, as well as increased political protest graffiti.