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I mean you can't really go throwing soup around and expect everyone to be ok with it. Anyway protesters get arrested all the time, it's kinda the point.
If protesters get arrested for protesting, then what will we do if the government goes against the people?
Punishing protesting is a form of domination, something that only has its place in dictatorships.
I do get being punished for destroying someone else's property, but not for protesting.
Protesters don't necessarily get arrested for protesting, usually its for creating a disturbance, like blocking roads and bridges, and doing weird shit like throwing tomato soup on paintings and gluing yourself to a museum wall. Protesting in this way is meant to be provocative, they know they'll get arrested, but it gets on the news and gets people talking.
Personally I'm not sure why they targeted painting in an art museum specifically, they were protesting the extraction of oil. Maybe because they were oil paintings?
It's because it's one of the most effective ways to get a news story about your protest without actually hurting anyone. I say all the more power to them. It's not like we don't have hi res scans of all these works of art. At this point the people that will have to pay for it are the rich people who own the artwork.