So beating up a woman to a pulp merits a mere two-year imprisonment sentence while the proposal to put up Anthony Neilson's theatrical work Stitching merits censorship from the highest court of the land and an outcry from half the nation due to obscenity and immorality (read about it here: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121202/local/Artistic-anger-over-banning-of-Stitching.447728).
When I compare a stage production – no matter how explicit/upsetting – to the real life beating up of someone to within an inch of her life, I know exactly which act I find most disturbing to my morals. And I hope I don't need to spell it out.
And yet, the latter merited only a few column inches of reportage on the media. No paladins of morality came out en masse to condemn the obscenity of the act, as they did when a production company attempted to stage Stitching.
For this, we had whole televised debates, public denouncements about the shameful state of our country's values and an unending stream of moralists explaining why it's perfectly all right for someone else to decide what I may and may not watch.
Not so when that little matter of justice for a woman who was very badly beaten up...
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