buildings like that are priceless and irreplaceable.
I get your meaning, but its also Arguable. realistically, it is replaceable. Humanity could rebuild it exactly the same inch by inch if they really wanted to. For not even all that much more than a replacement building. But they wont. Because of economics. So the “value” you speak of has a real actual price – the difference between replacement cost vs replacement-for-cheap cost.
Its destruction also has a meaning which also has value. It is a lasting monument to change-- to action-- to French character. And when a drab, cheap replacement building is put in its place you can bet they will have a picture n the lobby of what used to be there, and why it burned. They will be proud of burning it-- its their culture, and its laudable. It sure beats the Ameriucan passtime of sitting around voting ineffectively or else sitting around waiting for trump to burn the place to the ground so we can start over. I applaud them.
I still think they cant cook a steak right, but the french protesters are heroes in ways we are not, and they are people with some brass balls/ovaries.
I get your meaning, but its also Arguable. realistically, it is replaceable. Humanity could rebuild it exactly the same inch by inch if they really wanted to. For not even all that much more than a replacement building. But they wont. Because of economics. So the “value” you speak of has a real actual price – the difference between replacement cost vs replacement-for-cheap cost.
Its destruction also has a meaning which also has value. It is a lasting monument to change-- to action-- to French character. And when a drab, cheap replacement building is put in its place you can bet they will have a picture n the lobby of what used to be there, and why it burned. They will be proud of burning it-- its their culture, and its laudable. It sure beats the Ameriucan passtime of sitting around voting ineffectively or else sitting around waiting for trump to burn the place to the ground so we can start over. I applaud them.
I still think they cant cook a steak right, but the french protesters are heroes in ways we are not, and they are people with some brass balls/ovaries.