[devere]

I don’t share the exaggerated respect for antiquity. The Colosseum is a crime scene from Ancient Rome, a place where people were murdered. In my opinion the Italians should demolish it and replace it with a monument to the victims who were murdered there.

[EEGator]

Time will win. Time always wins…

[MD Expat in PA]

I don’t share the exaggerated respect for antiquity. The Colosseum is a crime scene from Ancient Rome, a place where people were murdered. In my opinion the Italians should demolish it and replace it with a monument to the victims who were murdered there.

Let me try this again since my original comment got removed.

The Colosseum is in and of itself, a monument to the victims and a site of great historical significance.

And demolishing it would be just as much of an insult to the victims who perished there as would bulldozing Auschwitz down to the ground and putting up a simple plaque would be, or turning the Gettysburg battlefield into a resort and theme park and high-density housing track with a little roadside monument, or wanting the Sistine Chapel torn down because of some the past abuses levied by the Catholic Church.

Not to mention that destroying ancient historical sites is something the Taliban and ISIS did.

Let’s not do that.

[MTsumi]

Yes, let’s erase all history that makes use feel uncomfortable. Keep the ones that make you feel comfortable, until it doesn’t then tear it down next.

[GingisK]

Smarter people consider the Colosseum to be the monument for the people who died there.

[Texan5]

I don’t consider that an exaggerated respect for antiquity-it is just history, and if we don’t preserve history, we will not learn from it. Whether good or evil, every deed in the past was done by humans, not the structures or landscape it happened in/on, and it needs to be remembered-preserving those locations is a part of that. If you are uncomfortable with the unvarnished truth about history-and those involved in it, you can subscribe to the kumbaya and untrue alternatives that are out there for snowflakes and such, leaving those of us who are into reality to learn about history as it is/was...

[Pelham]

I liked it better when it was just Antifa and the Taliban destroying things they didn’t like.

And Nikki Haley too, let’s not forget her.

[Nifster]

It’s not exaggerated

Please die young so you won’t offend yourself

[Trailerpark Badass]

I bet people have been carving their initials into since it was built.