Dog starves to death in Costa Rican museum

Hmm this has really given me something to think about for a while and I'm not to sure what I think about it. here are some thoughts, I apologize for the haphazardness of my brain.

I think that on the micro level what this 'artists' did was stupid. I don't think there is a "wrongness" to it because he did not kill the animal. What he also didn't do is help. Neither did anyone else. I'm not sure that by not preventing death this guy is guilty of any crime. People/animals/plants/life dies everyday, its as much a part of life as birth, so I find it hard to believe there are moral aspects to it. However, by sticking the rope around his neck and keeping the dog stuck to the museum wall, this 'artist' was eliminating the opportunity for survival. The dog, along with everyone else, deserves a chance....(raising an issue of morality with farm animals, I'm not going to address this here)

On a macro level, I think the 'artists' had very good intentions, and he clearly did a very good job of raising awareness to this issue. I'm some few thousand miles away, and this will be brought up around the dinner table.

I feel no guilt or remorse for the animals I eat. Be them cattle raised in a stockade or a pheasant I shot in Iowa last week. With this dog, I feel sorry that it specifically had to die. Sacrifice it's life so maybe the next dog on the street with get a scrap. However animals die by the millions everyday. I don't find morality to be a part of it. Being said I wish the dog had a chance, it's the only thing we can really provide for anything, and anyone.