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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;coleguy, post: 1261469, member: 9167&quot;]Chris brings up the only ethical issue I&#039;ve ever had with collecting. When historical sites are pillaged and looted for their contents because the demand for antiquities trumps the threat of punishment, some sort of ethical dilemma must be brewing in any collector&#039;s head. But then I thought, if nobody digs the pieces up, what good are they doing sitting there for eternity? And if a scientific team digs them up, right or wrong, they&#039;ll sit in boxes in some dusty room for eternity anyways, for nobody to see and enjoy. Sure, a fraction of them might go to museums, but most will never be seen. Collectors are like museum curators in this sense. So, ethically, I could care less how they end up getting from the dig site to my home because I find it a tragic waste to have history locked up never to be enjoyed, thus placing the real ethical dilemma on those who remove artifacts from one tomb just to place them in another.</p><p>Guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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