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by MaxHoppersGhost 751 days ago
Most of the countries these artifacts come from don’t have the ability to properly store and protect them. Not to mention mass looting and stealing that would/could occur in the more politically unstable countries.
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> Most of the countries these artifacts come from don’t have the ability to properly store and protect them.

ok, but the problem this article is discussing is that the British museum doesn’t have that ability either.

if you don’t know what objects you even have, how could you possibly be ensuring the proper storage conditions?

Absolutely wild logic that gets thrown around when it comes time to defend looting and pillaging that in many cases occurred during living memory or not far removed.

History have never seen looters like Brits and France, not even Mogols come close
I’d bet the Mongols looted and destroyed far more stuff than Brits/France on a percentage basis.
Can't understand how they brainwash people to accept theft, murder, and plundering other countries. What did they do to you to justify that? It would be an interesting field of research. Or are you just a poorly educated evil bloodthirsty sociopath?
I’m a realist who understands how the world really works and not some effete idealist.
You obviously don't understand what the word realist mean, imagine being that poorly educated while thinking you are superior. That's not being a realist it is just being propagandized and brainwashed, western exceptionalism is a mental illness like all delusional supremacist ideologies.