Sorry I don't buy into the Perservation Myth . And you wrote nothing that disproves the facts that I wrote: the marbles were hacked into pieces to fit into the crates, 23 crates sunk (later recovered after 2 years), for 16 years they sat in a damp climate, then there's the acid bath ...
You can't argue with facts, so you insult. Typical liberal technique. You call me Anglophobe, but do not debate.
You seem to rely on the concept of Superiority of Culture that the British have a right to the marbles, just because they are British. I find the British claim to the marbles extremely weak (considering their own report in 1816 admitted they were stolen), and I no more support theft of any culture, as I would support the Greeks claiming the Mary Rose for themselves.
How the Greeks would have cared for the marbles is irrelevant and simply not supported by the facts of how the marbles have been treated. The marbles do not belong to the Brits.
In the US, ownership of propery is respected. We don't have people going off looting other cultures and display that booty in museums -- in fact our Department of Defense goes after anyone- anyone who has been caught stealing Iraqi artifacts. Theft of another's culture is simply not in our nature. Recently, our own Supreme Court in 2001 ruled that even shipwrecked vessels-- shipwrecked in US waters belong to the country of origin -- in this case it was Spain. That was a surprise judgement to me, but it simply underscores the nature of our legal system and the respect that we hold for another's property.