Self-study
Monica: The sculpture commissioned for our town plaza has been scorned by the public ever since it went up. ███ █████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ████ █████ ████████████ ████ ███ ████████████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ███████ █████ ███ ████████ █████ ███ ████ █████ ██ ██████ ███ ████████ ███
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Speaker 1 Summary
Monica believes that the sculpture’s lack of popularity isn’t a good reason to remove the sculpture. Why not? Because the public is ignorant about contemporary art, and so lack of popularity tells us nothing about its artistic merit. For Monica, any reason to remove the sculpture must be related to its artistic merit.
Speaker 2 Summary
Hector disagrees; he says that if people don’t like the sculpture, then it should be removed. Why? Because the sculpture should benefit the public, and popular opinion is the only way to know whether people think the sculpture benefits them.
Objective
We need a principle that Monica and Hector disagree on. They disagree about the rationale for removing a sculpture. Monica thinks it’s necessary to consider artistic merit. Hector thinks artistic merit doesn’t matter if the public believes the sculpture is of no benefit.
Analysis by AlbertGauthier
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