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Originally Posted by gmku
Tagging a library book is just destruction, pure and simple. Who wants to come to new book and find it adulturated with somebody elses insights, good or bad? That sucks. Libraries are there to preserve cultural artifacts of all kinds so that everyone can enjoy them, and all the so-called tagging does is degrade that effort.
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Agreed. 'Tagging' in terms of grafitti is a territorialism, not an artform, and it makes sense within that context. I might not like it, but I accept it. Writing on a book that is common property (that is, desecrating public property that you've paid for by taxes etc) doesn't assert anything other that your own idiocy and disregard for other people's preferences. Sheer arrogance, and lacking in the arrogance that constitutes tagging as territorial.