Talk:Art destruction

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I've edited this quite a bit for the following reasons:

• I wanted to clarify the various reasons why an art work would be destroyed. Sand sculptures are probably closer to a form of intentional destruction than one of natural destruction - I'd save the latter for things like erosion, earthquake, flooding, and the like. I also wanted to differentiate between truly natural causes and accidental ones - a warehouse fire isn't an act of God any more than a plane crash like Swissair 111 is.

• "Controversial" isn't a cause, since even a natural or accidental cause can be controversial. There's an enormous amount of controversy, for example, over the Sphinx's erosion, but that doesn't mean it's intentional or criminal - basically environmentalists are getting worried about acid rain in Egypt. Swissair Flight 111's crash was controversial for reasons I won't get in here, but certainly that doesn't mean it wasn't an accident.

I took the four categories I used from death certificates. Natural, accidental, homicide (9/11, the Afghan statues, etc.), and suicide (Burning man, sand sculptures, etc.). It just makes sense. --68.144.40.224 22:24, 24 March 2006 (UTC)