This argument that we should keep statues (or windows) to remember history doesn’t seem to hold water to me. What are we remembering by keeping them? I don’t t

This argument that we should keep statues (or windows) to remember history doesn’t seem to hold water to me. What are we remembering by keeping them? I don’t think that anyone argues that we should be _erecting_ statues to figures we don’t admire - who, if they’re intended as cautionary tales are surely _more_ worthwhile to think about. So it’s not just that they serve to help us remember figures from the past. So should we instead keep them to remember that the people _were_ once admired enough to get statues? That seems like a very odd second-order reason to keep something.