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Comment by JumpCrisscross

1 day ago

> thats problem with 'good theft', its still amora

You may have meant immoral. But amoral puts it better.

From the perspective of common heritage, it’s better at the British Museum. From the perspective of ethnonational self determination, it should be returned to its origin even if that means its destruction.

I personally tend towards the latter for newer artefacts and the former for older ones. (The logic for the people living somewhere today having exclusive domain over something made millennia earlier falls apart if the present occupants may be barely more related to those forerunners than someone on another continent.)

But everything old was new at some point. If it can’t survive it’s youth then there is no real dilemma.

  • > everything old was new at some point

    We live in the present. In the present, some things are old and others are new.