Nelger Carrera / Roundup
Graffiti is a form of vandalism. Not only does it decrease property value, but it costs money to paint over it, while it also raises the crime rate and hurts businesses.
It takes a significant portion of our tax money, being that it costs the city hundreds of thousands of dollars to remove it.
Another thing is it makes streets look dirty.
Graffiti also instills insecurity in communities by encouraging youngsters to get involved with gangs.
The messages that gangs put up usually tend to invoke violence.
“Graffiti ruins society and there is no point of painting the streets,” said criminal justice major Turan Solares.
In addition it puts taggers lives in harms way, when it comes to their health. Inhaling the toxic fumes that emit from the spray cans have caused many to fall from ladders as they tag billboards and freeway signs.
Many people defend graffiti by saying that it’s a way of expressing their ideas, but there are other, less destructive ways to do that.
One mad-at-the-world tagger doing graffiti cannot help anyone or make a difference in any way.
Taggers that think they’re expressing themselves by tagging are not only incorrect, but, may have a screw lose as well.
Don’t get me wrong there is some nice murals around the city, but, there is more ugly, horrific junk that make the city look dirty and unclean.
Taggers that get paid to put up nice murals are artists.
Being mad at the world does not give anyone permission to go out and cause acts of destruction.
It doesn’t solve problems; it only creates them. People think it’s cool.
Would it still be cool if they did it on your home?
It becomes annoying in that it’s everywhere.
Honestly, no one really cares, when someone sticks a note on a street sign saying “Hello My Name is: Uselesstagger,” with those fancy graffiti letters, of course.
Graffiti and taggers are like a kitchen with cockroaches, but the difference between cockroaches and taggers is that cockroaches do the damage to survive not because they are not accepted or not easy to get along.
College buildings are public property and they set an example and graffiti painted on it is unacceptable.
Graffiti is damaging and God-awful when it’s done on a brand new building or project, like that of the recently installed Brahma statue.
Graffiti does not promote peace and the reaction is repulsive. It is the opposite of progress; it is offensive and disgusting by morality and decency.
In reality graffiti is a cancer that kills our morals and sets free too much liberty within our mind.
Liberty that only generates hate and misunderstandings, destruction and drawbacks.
People that do graffiti try to be someone to everyone, but they end up being nothing to all of us.
Graffiti is like hate, whoever does it is just wasting their time.
People that do graffiti dare authorities and try to go above the law, good thing that in the end the bad boys never win.
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