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Personally I don't care at all about artifacts like this so the principal of the matter seems more important to me then the potential destruction of the artifac
by izzydata 7y ago
Personally I don't care at all about artifacts like this so the principal of the matter seems more important to me then the potential destruction of the artifacts.
It's their stuff to potentially get destroyed or go missing. If they would rather take that risk upon themselves then so be it.
- jpmoral 7y agoWhat about stuff that you do care about? Would you go against your principles then?
- izzydata 7y agoI'm not aware of anything that would conflict with my stance. The point being that no object is more important than the principles here. The world will keep on spinning if all this stuff is destroyed. The bar for conflicting would be something that causes problems for our continued existence on earth. Perhaps something such as a country "owning" a river and deciding to freely dump nuclear waste into it which in turn causes problems for everyone.
- munk-a 7y ago> If they would rather take that risk upon themselves then so be it. I think that's an important point - they aren't being given that choice right now - if the British Museum decided to return all the Benin Bronzes then it's not inconceivable that Nigeria would leave them in the custody of the British Museum until it had a safe space to house them - or possibly loan them to the British Museum if there were doubts of the item's safety.