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Just like how your partner isn't cheating on you if you never find out? Seems like a silly view.
by gilrain 6y ago
Just like how your partner isn't cheating on you if you never find out? Seems like a silly view.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoCome on. There have been paintings for 100's of years considered by a master, and later study disproves it. Were they valuable all that while? Sure they were.
- gilrain 6y agoYou mean, did the thing they were assumed to be have value all that time? Yes. But then it was discovered that they were not that thing.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoDoes 'value' mean what people would pay for the thing? They paid lots for those 'fake' paintings. Ergo, they had value. The value was destroyed by looking a little too carefully at their provenance. I simply observe that the value was destroyed not by the artist that created them, but by the investigator. That much seems obvious. But whom to blame? That's a human moral issue. I suggest we could reasonably blame the investigator.
- goto11 6y agoYou are basically rejecting the idea that something can be fake. If I faked a letter from Albert Einstein where he confessed to secretly being a Christian I'm sure people consider it of great value. Would it "destroy value" if someone figured out it was actually a hoax?
- daseiner1 6y agoi wasn’t going to hell until i was told about the whole “God” fiasco
- bluGill 6y agoOr so you thought at the time.