Consider this claim:
Rather than being promoted as art, graffiti should be condemned and prohibited.
Which is the strongest evidence to support the claim?
Calling graffiti "art" encourages its creation, which in turn leads to a costly
community expense. For instance, the Kansas City Parks and Recreation
Department spent approximately $130,000 in 2012 to remove graffiti.
Studies have demonstrated that the majority of people who make graffiti are
males between the ages of twelve and twenty-one years old, whereas only
about 15 percent of graffiti taggers are young females.
Graffiti Hurts, a grassroots community education program in the United
States, cites fame, rebellion, self-expression, and power as the four
motivating factors for graffiti vandalism.