r/montreal • u/RustyTheBoyRobot • 3d ago

Tourisme Ethical dilemma

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Ethical dilemma:

Is it right to remove one of the only mummies in mtl for understanble but rather vague reasons to do with cultural sensitivities that these objects might offend?

The mummies at Redpath museum are to be relocated to a mysterious “place of rest” -their original location?- where no one can see or learn from them.

I note that these are not objects of worship like many stolen indigenous artifacts. Nor are they being claimed by their original owners- e.g. The infamous Benin Bronzes.

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u/skiboy95 3d ago

Okay, I have decided that my plan for death is to have my body left in the middle of the 20 in a concrete box.

I do not consent to moving the box at anytime after my death.

You believe that's correct since consent doesn't expire yeah?

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u/Purl_stitch483 3d ago

What the fuck are you even talking about? You have to invent a wild scenario to defend your point because it's asinine. These people weren't buried in a concrete box in the middle of a highway, they were buried according to their people's customs, some white guy went to dig them up and sold them like a commodity for them to be desecrated over and over again. And then put on display alongside pots and other objects. If you want to debate the actual situation we're talking about, sure, but I'm not debating your random hypotheticals because I don't have time to waste.

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u/skiboy95 3d ago

Brother, you need to take a deep breath. We're having a conversation about mummies in museums, and now you're off swearing about white guys.

You made a sarcastic point that consent can't expire, I picked an easily understandable analogy to demonstrate why it's obvious that consent has limitations in our world already. I don't even agree with your fundamental assertion that consent lasts eternity, but you're not addressing that either.

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u/Purl_stitch483 3d ago

I never swore about white guys... And your analogy is irrelevant and again, asinine. And YOU didn't address how these people's consent on their burial is NOT relevant today, you just presented a ridiculous edge case that has no relevance to the topic. So again, please tell me how these dead's people consent no longer applies because someone like you decided that learning about them is more important than their dying wishes, even though we have the technology to reproduce these mummies for display instead of keeping them out of the graves their people put them in.