That Blush of Shame Proclaims Thee

In keeping with patriotic standards of decency and fair play, the British Petroleum Museum has forbidden digital scanning of some stolen property by the Institute for Digital Archaeology, even though such scanning is explicitly permitted in the Museum's own guidelines. The Museum, after five weeks of thinking it over, refused to facilitate the making of the scans, apparently on the grounds that they might lead to new discoveries; and then squealed with violated entitlement when the IDA took matters into its own hands. As a result, the Museum faces legal action by the IDA, which nurses blasphemous hopes of replicating and reconstructing the Parthenon Marbles as they might have been seen by the beastly foreigners whose culture did nothing more than create them. Worse yet, the creation of digital replicas might also contribute to the termination of the endlessly constructive argument between the master race and its inferiors over whether artifacts rightly belong in their countries of origin or in the countries of their imperial plunderers; which would clearly be just too awful.