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You should really try to appreciate how a musician relates to their antique violin. Would you not understand peoples' sadness if a collection of great painting

You should really try to appreciate how a musician relates to their antique violin. Would you not understand peoples' sadness if a collection of great paintings were destroyed in a museum fire? The sickest part of it was that it was destroyed intentionally by humans for no good reason at all. Sure, this was not the most valuable piece in the world but there are definitely a finite number of them remaining. My guess is a lot of them are moving to collectors in Asia never to be seen again in the West. Who would have thought that would be the safest place for them? Oooh this makes me sick.

AnthonBerg 15y ago
If only we were as compassionate towards, say, starving people.
- gjm11 15y ago
  The estimates I've seen for the total amount of humanitarian aid are on the order of $20bn/year. What's the world's annual violin-compassion budget? (I think $20bn/year is way too low and the world would be a better place if we were more compassionate towards starving people and others in distress. But that's no reason at all not to care about old violins being destroyed.)
- Dove 15y ago
  Puzzling. Do you think people would be less irate if, instead of a violin destroyed, it had been a starving person?
  - st0p 15y ago
    [dystopia]Imagine a starving person from Ethopia being sold on ebay and then destroyed because the buyer said the bought good actually had the Somalian nationality[/dystopia]
    - petercooper 15y ago
      I smell a new Spielberg movie.
petercooper 15y ago
You should really try to appreciate how a musician relates to their antique violin. Their violin. Not some random stranger's on the Internet. People are losing their lives and homes every day. An emotionally healthy and sane person's psychology allows one to not cry or get "cut up" about every such incident, while allowing one to feel empathy for the afflicted. A strong attachment to one's own material possessions is unhealthy enough without taking on the emotional ownership of a third party's.

AnthonBerg 15y ago

If only we were as compassionate towards, say, starving people.

gjm11 15y ago
The estimates I've seen for the total amount of humanitarian aid are on the order of $20bn/year. What's the world's annual violin-compassion budget? (I think $20bn/year is way too low and the world would be a better place if we were more compassionate towards starving people and others in distress. But that's no reason at all not to care about old violins being destroyed.)
Dove 15y ago
Puzzling. Do you think people would be less irate if, instead of a violin destroyed, it had been a starving person?
- st0p 15y ago
  [dystopia]Imagine a starving person from Ethopia being sold on ebay and then destroyed because the buyer said the bought good actually had the Somalian nationality[/dystopia]
  - petercooper 15y ago
    I smell a new Spielberg movie.

petercooper 15y ago

You should really try to appreciate how a musician relates to their antique violin. Their violin. Not some random stranger's on the Internet. People are losing their lives and homes every day. An emotionally healthy and sane person's psychology allows one to not cry or get "cut up" about every such incident, while allowing one to feel empathy for the afflicted. A strong attachment to one's own material possessions is unhealthy enough without taking on the emotional ownership of a third party's.