panko opened this issue on Jan 01, 2004 ยท 51 posts
panko posted Fri, 02 January 2004 at 11:04 AM
OK... My message seem to have fallen flat and here we go with yet another pointless argument about law and order and moral and ethics... Sorry, this was not my intention as it was certainly not my intention to attract the limelight on me --I have better things to do-- otherwise I wouldn't have chosen an imperfect, unfinished picture to illustrate my point. Lets see This site is privately owned. It is a commercial one --and therefore "public". It depends upon it's "guests" slash "customers" to survive --if I don't buy they cease to exist. Therefore I'm not merely a guest; I'm "a guest bearing gifts". Now, I happen to like this place --not for its mentality but for the people who come here to share their knowledge and art with me; the most wonderful and generous people I ever met. This makes it more than just a shop or guesthouse with rules --it makes it a community. As I like being here it is my duty to help improving it in any way I can. If I happen to stumble upon something that appears to be wrong I need to point it out in the hope that someone will take the time and effort to think it over again and if need be possibly correct it. Discrimination in art, as in society --and by the way I certainly don't see why "non-mainstream" families should be outcasts-- is wrong. A law/rule in a community that perpetrates wrong should change --Nazi Germany had a score of very cozy laws and rules that led where they led. We are thinking beings, no sheep to blindly follow the leader. ...and for one last time... ART CANNOT BE RESTRICTED BY RULES Having said this I apologize to whoever felt his feelings hurt by this thread; this was not my intention, believe me. And I promise that from now on Ill stick to purely technical matters such as "my shadows are off and my renders suckwhat should I do?", leaving the philosophical issues to more able to discuss. But the way things go nowadays everywhere- make me very nervous. This is my last post on this (and other philosophical) matters farewell and goodbye. :-)
"That's another fine mess you got me in to!" -- Oliver Hardy