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>At least based on my visits to Luxor, very few tombs have acrylic/glass wall protections to prevent it but it's ridiculously common to see tourists in some of
by cmdshiftf4 6y ago
>At least based on my visits to Luxor, very few tombs have acrylic/glass wall protections to prevent it but it's ridiculously common to see tourists in some of the tombs doing that
I understand the sentiment, however I'm personally not in favour of modelling everything in society to account for the lowest common denominator and sterilizing everything in sight in response.
The issues you mention are nothing that couldn't be solved by advertising hefty fines and enforcing them.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoYou're still proposing to deal with the lowest common denominator, only in a different way.
- cmdshiftf4 6y agoIndeed. A more direct, active way with the goal of not impacting those who abide by the rules.
- throwaway_pdp09 6y agoWithout saying which way is better, your claiming that fines are more 'direct' than putting physical barriers in the way is blatantly not true, barriers being the ultimate direct prevention.
- cmdshiftf4 6y agoI'm talking about direct retribution over prevention i.e. people visiting the sites without touching anything aren't directly impacted by those who do touch, however they're directly impacted by putting up glossy glass over those same sites. Those visiting the sites who do touch that which they're told not to face direct retribution and serve as a warning to others not to do the same.
- Koshkin 6y ago> hefty fines and enforcing I am not sure if that's the right approach - that would be like deciding to punish animals in a zoo for crossing a line instead of having physical barriers installed.
- aplummer 6y agoer, humans have agency to follow instruction easily in a way that animals do not.
- netsharc 6y agoHmm, if it's just rules/fines, the chances are 0% that no one touches the thing, because it seems like guaranteed that an idiot will one day walk in there and touch something they're not meant to touch. So if you want to preserve it, probably barriers/distance is the only good enough protection.
- wl 6y agoPutting any of this on display, barriers or no, means you're slowly destroying it. If preservation were the primary aim, nobody would be allowed inside except epigraphers and photographers. Want to see these monuments? Look at the photographs, drawings, and models like this.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoThey have, but a lot of people can't be arsed.