The Declaration of Independence or someone's life?

Well if “National Treasure” has taught us anything…

(Haven’t seen it…)

Dang Shockvalue you got shut down… I on the other hand have seen it and i get your point!

I wanna know what the point is :P

(Haven’t seen it either)
We value these artifacts so highly because they show us, in one way or another, our human potential. We see reflected in them the beauty of humanity. To destroy the human to save a munument to humanity would be a bit ironic, no?

Actually, Harp, that sounds noble, but mostly treasure hunters value objects because of greed, not their meaning or antiquity. I am not sure few, if any, of them would behave as the fictional Jones or Cage in National Treasure do.

That said, I would always value life over objects. We human beings tend to venerate objects that have great age. Yes, they are important. Yes, historically, they were important in their times, although not viewed with the awe that we, for example, view the Magna Carta. Sometimes, though, we get stuck in ritual and history, and it holds us back from civilized behavior.

I guess my question is why is it always lives vs. objects in these movies? Seems like artificial dilemmas created to heighten drama. Outside the movies, why does either or have to be the case?

life is overrated…

life is priceless.
some items and works of art are so unique that they maybe considered priceless.

Human life over physical objects.

No life is considered to be better than something physical.

Unless you’re in Liberia.

Sorry, I can’t resist tying current events into almost anything.