Personally i would have glued their other hands to the wall and then turned off the lights and closed for the night 
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Bailed and on trial in December.
Stupid pricks 
They should get as severe punishment as possible.
If they donât, it will just encourage more posh, entitled, middle class students to do the same.
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Weâre so fucked as a species. Enjoy it while it you can 
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Just paint another fucking one if it gets damaged.
All this fucking art value shit is fucking insane. Fucking first world problems.
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Iâm not sure Iâm in favour of severe punishments for kids doing dumb ass stuff when it doesnât involve violence. They need something more in the spirit of being pelted with tomatoes or having their phones smashed in front of them.
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What do you mean by this exactly? Like the maximum possible under the charge made or life imprisonment?
Would certainly be fitting that those protesting the destruction of our planet get harsher sentences than those responsible for the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
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Howâs that gonna happen then? Seeing as Van Gogh has been dead for a while. Just because there are problems in the world does it mean we canât have nice things?
Great art in whatever form has mostly been produced by people who have suffered social deprivation unlike the entitled idiots who think itâs ok to commit vandalism to something that has not got anything to do with todayâs problems.
How about vandalising government buildings or fuel stations or any other big corporations rather than an easy target.
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I dream we can live in a world with both a planet that is not destroyed and also paintings.
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Well itâs easy no. Someone just copies it. Whatâs the nonsense about putting stupid values of money on a painting.
I think originals have a cultural value though. Itâs cool that a human made a cool painting to put it bluntly.
The price that private owners/collectors pay each other I just see as nonsensical, it is rich people who transfer electronical numbers between each other, it doesnât affect anyone else.
Not that the cultural value is destroyed here any way if I understand the glass protection thing correctly.
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Itâs also cool to know that itâs really old and still exists today.
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Iâm assuming you donât really like art then lol.
I suppose people who like and understand art think people who are into football are wasting their time and money following a game which pays its employees obscene amounts of money and is absolutely corrupt.
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And theyâd have a good argument too.
Yeah absolutely, I mean I couldâve ranted for an hour about why I love art, I just decided to tl;dr it 
Give them whatever the maximum punishment is for this offence.
Probably a hefty fine, not that a few grand is going to deter them.
Like I said before, Ive got no problems with people protesting but doing things like stopping workers by gluing yourself to the road is just going to alienate themselves from people who might otherwise have sympathised with them.
Throwing soup over a painting is pretty pathetic and is hardly like sitting in front of a red army tank in Tiananmen Square.
Probably the most edgy thing this virtue signaller did before this was to dye her hair pink.
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What does understanding art mean exactly. I can appreciate a painting, but any deeper significance, explain it.
You know something else thatâs old and cool? The planet we live on
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Isnât that the whole point? It means different stuff to different people.