pugnaciousfarter
Those relics belong to dead people.
No, it belongs to a community. Does something stop belonging to a people if the original creators die? No.
That way nobody owns any land, because it belongs to the amoeba.
Returning the artifacts is meant to be a good will gesture, and a sort of a reparation (in lieu of the actual reparations) for all the horrible colonial era crimes that were propagated not more than even 100 years ago.
Many cases
Source: my ass
You will never be able to get everyone to agree on anything and you can't hold a referendum for every artifact.
So as far as responsibility goes, barring edge cases, it should be left upto the government to decide, as they represent the people.
And tbh, this feels like an argument made in bad faith, because this is such a rare case. No government is going to ask for an artifact back and then destroy it. What happened in afganistan and Syria was a tragedy (they didn't ask for those artifacts back, they were already there) But that only happened because the previous governments had been destabilized by Russian and American influences. (Iraq war - Isis, Afganistan war - alqaeda)
There's no clear 'owner' in many cases.
Just return it to the country where it was taken from. And I don't think there are many cases where ownership is vague, most are pretty plain and clear.
then we should prioritize saving the artifacts over the ones that seek to destroy them.
That's not on you, that's on their original keepers. Otherwise you are propagating colonial era crimes and justifying them by arguing in bad faith.
P.s.
- Museums have a notorious record when it comes to maintaining artifacts (they aren't shining beacons of humanity), especially the British museum.
- They also do less than what's needed to discourage artifact smuggling.
- watch: https://youtu.be/eJPLiT1kCSM
Yeah, personally a huge fan of the game, but if you think spec ops the line is the last best game, then you really haven't played that many good games since.
There's also such a thing as subjective tastes and I believe that it's more so significant in games because of how diverse they are.
Signal is a much better choice and its basically a whatsapp clone.
Re-reading the terror - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3974.The_Terror
This is a comfort read.
And also reading gridlinked - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/98046.Gridlinked
I've heard good stuff about the polity series. Looking forward to seeing the jain nodes in action.
It's like learning a loved one is sick again.
There was definite political will behind those operations and at least tacit support from the western powers at the time. (But only for those nazis which they felt weren't useful to them).
I don't really see the same being possible with any country in the future. If there was any political will to do so, they already would have put pressure on them. And as far as I can tell, there's very little actual pressure on them.
So this isn't happening, unless the Palestinians are able to form a government of their own and get support from a major superpower with which their interests align.
You had me in the first half. To go from programming to game programming right now? shivers
I can't blame you. I was for forced to play it before I got into it. Forced by the fact that supergiant games can be er go wrong in my book 🙌. Haha
So it's better to keep it somewhere thousands of kilometres away where they'll never be able to see it as compared to being able to see it albeit with difficulty?
That's an internal problem for them to solve, not an excuse to hoard someone else's culture.