They are called "tripping cobbles", but they are actually flush with the rest of the cobbles - everything else would be a huge hazard for people not watching wh

They are called "tripping cobbles", but they are actually flush with the rest of the cobbles - everything else would be a huge hazard for people not watching where they walk. So I don't think the "grave insult" applies here, or else why would the Stolpersteine have been inserted into the middle of the boardwalk of streets with lots of pedestrian traffic? If you're in a hurry and don't look down, you will not even know they are there. And if you read the artistic statement, that's exactly what they are meant to be - a part of daily life, not a sculpture to stand in front of and study. Of course, if someone wanted to insult the dead, they could make a show of repeatedly stepping on them. I don't think it would provoke much of a reaction other than people thinking "what a pitiful loser".