[Fifth Business]

...one could almost see some left-of-center thinking here me thinks!

You must be thinking of the bleeding hearts who think not one American life should be risked to protect property.

[Gasshog]

A decade or so ago I might share your viewpoint

In the grand scheme of the things these relics arent doing anything to guide us to a better future.

Just the relics of a dead past. Liberal Scholary folks will not get Gubmint Grants to study them now. Pity.