Seriously, Bruce? I wonder if the next guy to steal your camera equipment will use the same relativistic fallacy you just did, and how far his reasoning that if you start "pulling that thread" by demanding the return of your property the whole of modern civilization will unravel you will choose to believe then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativist_fallacy In fact, the more "ethical museums" have been returning items for some time now. Even more "ethical museums" are reducing the econonic market by NOW refusing to accept items without establishing ownership and where they came from. Modern civilization will, no doubt, unravel (and perhaps in the not too distant future). But I doubt if history will lay the blame at the feet of museums that return stolen artifacts to their originating countries. PS.. regarding the phrase "ethical museums"... we should not anthropomorphize museums. They HATE it when we do that. On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:12 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 10:49 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 28/04/2014 3:53 PM, Darren Addy wrote: >> >> >> >> Not to mention that "Museum Ethics" is an oxymoron. >> >> >> >> >> > Every museum curator that I have known (admittedly only a dozen or so), has >> > had a very strong sense of ethics. >> >> Uh huh. Most people would probably say the same about every Catholic >> priest they have known. >> >> I'm referring to the problem of looted art and artifacts that are >> displayed in museums around the world. While some of it is being now >> being returned there is still a lot of it that museums are fighting to >> hold onto. >> http://goo.gl/7HGzJU > > What about all the looted land that probably all of us are living on? > > If you start pulling on that loose thread, the fabric of modern > civilization unravels. > > -- > -bmw > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs. ~ Alfred Stieglitz -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
