Everything is offensive to somebody. I don't know what you mean by "cancel the author". You clearly don't want the questions being asked or the issue discussed,

Everything is offensive to somebody. I don't know what you mean by "cancel the author". You clearly don't want the questions being asked or the issue discussed, don't try to play innocent about it. And there has never been greater need to worry about opposition to science. > Definitely agreed, freedom of speech should be sacrosanct in any civilized placed. You should have the right to, for example, claim that the Holocaust didn't happen Bully. > I did provide arguments for my position. You didn't. "I'm offended" is not an argument. > In general I think the first thing to ask is: did the majority of the people living in that place at that time freely consented with the removal of their artifacts? This is not an argument either, it does not address the question asked and now apparently you don't find it offensive to discuss the issue anymore it seems like it's something you've just made up without thinking much. The issues in question go a lot deeper -- if one group of people displaces another, how do the artifacts become "theirs". An interesting question (note that I did not take the position one way or the other whether this was the case in Egypt). > I'm curious btw, do you think what Elgin did with the Parthenon is fair game too? Define "fair game". This is not some gotcha, I never said I thought removing Egyptian artifacts was "fair game". And as to the current discussion, modern Greeks clearly have strong ancestral lineages to ancient Greeks.