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I think you're assuming that the way people interact with something is independent of its context.

The impact of (to take a random example) a university having a statue of Venus or whatever in the grounds, is not the same as having the Lenna image in a textbook

https://www.cmc.edu/news/every-picture-tells-a-story

Even though the statue might objectively be showing more, people are not automata, so the context is everything.

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> I think you're assuming that the way people interact with something is independent of its context.

I’m unable to comprehend how you got to that assumption.

But to be clear, I undestand you shouldn’t bring art or musical instruments to work if you work for the Taleban. But in the story, the audience are adult creatives working professionaly with visual arts

> I’m unable to comprehend how you got to that assumption.

Because you conflate art in public spaces with the use of images like Jennifer in selling software. To me it seems obvious that these are fundamentally not the same.

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