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The government should fund arts
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it is the state's obligation to maintain an aesthetic environment for the sake of fairness, the government should support arts production like it subsidizes the building of sports arena preservation of arts, e.g. museum, is involved with education, which appears to be a legitimate realm of state's activity arts in society can function as an economic stimulant, promoting prosperity, for example, attracting tourists government promotion of arts helps enrich culture art performs a moralizing function so should be supported and promoted art is intrinsically good" it is good in itself	public arts funding primarily benefits the already advantaged the citizenry does not favor the use of public money for arts funding it is the minority that should be supported

the citizenry does not favor the use of public money for arts funding
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political decision should be subjected to citizens' will

it is the state's obligation to maintain an aesthetic environment
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(co) aesthetic need, which is to be satisfied with appropriate environment, is a basic necessity for human well-being it is the state's responsibility to provide the fellow citizens with the basic necessity for a good life without government support the condition necessary for satisfying our need for arts cannot be sustained

without government support the condition necessary for satisfying our need for arts cannot be sustained
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	government funding is redundant

government funding is redundant
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where people are interested in art, there will still be an audience to support new work big businesses are attracted to arts patronage were there no audience whatsoever, it would be difficult to determine on what basis the government would justify funding arts	arts audience are built by availability of arts production

big businesses are attracted to arts patronage
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projecting the kind of upwardly mobile profile associated with interest in the arts attracts upwardly mobile investors

for the sake of fairness, the government should support arts production like it subsidizes the building of sports arena
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	investing in sport is profitable, due to taxes on sport-related activities it may be the case that neither sports nor arts should be funded

preservation of arts, e.g. museum, is involved with education, which appears to be a legitimate realm of state's activity
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	arts is not always about preserving culture, it is also a matter of creating culture, which exceeds the realm of education

arts in society can function as an economic stimulant, promoting prosperity, for example, attracting tourists
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If state funding is not forthcoming, then many artists will be unemployed	it is unlikely that grants to individual artists for new works (as opposed to city art centers) can bring forth economic well-being of the society

If state funding is not forthcoming, then many artists will be unemployed
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	artistic unemployment involves artists unemployment as artists rather than their unemployment simplicter government does not have the responsibility to guarantee that everyone has the job he or she desires under the copyright system, artists can speak and produce art works, and make money for that speech and works, without relying on government support

government promotion of arts helps enrich culture
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	the act of government intervention will lower the nation's cultural level and possibility lead to attempts at political control

the act of government intervention will lower the nation's cultural level and possibility lead to attempts at political control
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it is never appropriate to have a writer work under the chill of possible censorship, knowing that if he or she transgresses boundaries, funding may be lost state's funding of arts constitutes a kind of state censorship

art performs a moralizing function so should be supported and promoted
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through art the populace could be morally improved	the realm of art should be pluralist and relatively independent of considerations of social utility there is a great danger that the development of the art world will be skewed in certain directions

through art the populace could be morally improved
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arts can foster greater tolerance within society and thereby bolster the moral order

arts can foster greater tolerance within society and thereby bolster the moral order
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art has the capacity to engender moral improvement, with the tendency of certain kinds of art to develop our sympathies for others

art has the capacity to engender moral improvement, with the tendency of certain kinds of art to develop our sympathies for others
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some art enables us to see the world from different points of view, enabling us to grasp vicariously the situation of different classes, races and genders

there is a great danger that the development of the art world will be skewed in certain directions
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only that art which we can reasonably predict will increase moral sympathies can be funded

art is intrinsically good" it is good in itself
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	the state does not an should not be taken to have a role in the production of whatever we conceive to be an intrinsic good or even an intrinsic good