Zardoz wrote:
markg wrote:
What's the argument for not just fucking giving them back. Surely it's not worth this sort of hassle for a few people to look at some statues.
Because everyone one else will want their stuff back.
Indeed. Elgin saved them from the Turks who where destroying them, sold them to Britain, who put them in a museum.
Modern Greece now wants them, as they used to be on land that they now occupy.
Do they have a right to them? Possibly, possibly not, could be argued either way. But what it would do is open up every museum everywhere for similar claims.