6th April 2012, 11:46 AM
Kel Wrote:Depends on your audience and how receptive they are.
If you're faced with a bunch of people who've already decided to throw stones, then the best you can do is try and mitigate the effects of the throwing.
The only way you could avoid any damage at all, is to make a baying stone-armed mob in a greenhouse, calm down, listen to you and then agree with you.
The first option may have some effect. The second will probably just end up with stones being thrown at you as well as the greenhouse.
I'm not arguing with your logic Kel. Just suggesting that if people are willing to make any effort to try and stop monuments being affected by war, they should make a big effort towards stopping the problem and not just ameliorating the damage. In reality I suspect that few people will bother at all.....which is perhaps a worse indictment of our modern age, than the situation where cultural heritage is victim to the efficiency of the war machine....
With peace and consolation hath dismist, And calm of mind all passion spent...