I have seen a lot of tesla vandalism online the last few days and I’m kind of on the fence about it.

I’ve seen several examples locally here in BC, Canada.

I think totally warranted at newly purchased teslas going forward. Also it serves as a deterrent for potential future buyers.

But vandalizing a car that is a few years old I think is lame. Those driversare already being punished enough by driving something around that’s worth less than scrap.

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    12 hours ago

    de·face /dəˈfās/ verb gerund or present participle: defacing spoil the surface or appearance of (something), for example by drawing or writing on it.

    I dunno this isn’t really what I wanted the thread to be about.

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      11 hours ago

      Do you think that removing the dust spoils the appearance?

      I don’t know what you expected the thread to be about when you gave an example of “wiping dust off a car” and treated it the same as “scraping the paint off with a box cutter”. You picked an example that just begs for quibbling over severity.

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        10 hours ago

        I intentionally chose an example that would lead to fence sitting. Some people’s vehicles are getting literally destroyed lol

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      11 hours ago

      Then you should have chosen a picture where the truck is actually defaced/vandalized with spray paint or the like, not some ambiguous dust tracing, that you have to spend time insisting is defacing.

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        10 hours ago

        I should have posted without an image in retrospect.