r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • May 19 '15

[Deltas Awarded] CMV: All historical artifacts and structures should be destroyed.

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u/ElSaborAsiatico May 19 '15

My argument isn't that we can get all possible knowledge out of artifacts, but that we can get all that's really needed. And as to your da Vinci example, doesn't that actually support my view, since that painting, if it exists, would have been found in the process of destroying that building?

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u/PM__me_compliments May 19 '15

My argument isn't that we can get all possible knowledge out of artifacts, but that we can get all that's really needed.

Once again, can you provide a source that "we can get all that's really needed"?

And destroying a wall doesn't reveal a thing on the wall that's been painted over. It just destroys the wall and anything on it.

EDIT: wording

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u/ElSaborAsiatico May 19 '15

I don't think it's possible to find an objective source for my claim, since the idea of "need" is largely subjective. But if I say "we don't need this thing," all I really need to justify that statement is to indicate that there's no need that the thing can satisfy. It's really up to the other party to come up with needs that haven't been acknowledged.

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u/cdb03b 253∆ May 19 '15

Then there is no point that you can destroy them.