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Originally Posted by Wormius
Even if the property has important cultural significance? If a person was going to destroy the inside of the Sistine Chapel or burn the Mona Lisa would it change your mind?
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I don’t think that changes things, really. If you had to choose, would you rather murder someone or watch the Mona Lisa burn?
That’s not to say the value of a life can’t be subjective or debated, considering we have those debates around abortion and assisted dying. But the value of a life over and inanimate object seems universally higher no matter how you split it.
The Mona Lisa will never cease to exist regardless of what happens to it. The original painting itself could be lost, but we will always know what it was. Houses can be rebuilt, objects can be replaced. But life just is what it is, once it’s over it’s over, there’s nothing else.