What price ethics? One of France's greatest treasures is the cave at Lascaux, covered with wild beasties from pre-historic times. Dozens of them in vibrant colours, imaginative and fascinating. You pay your chunk of money, the guide takes you down, explains everything to you and you admire what your very distant ancestors were capable of doing. However....what you see is actually a recently painted, faithfully reproduced copy because the original was thought to be in danger.
So they constructed an inch by inch replica of the original cave and copied what was there. Great idea and Nicholas Sarkozy was there a couple of days before us, when they were celebrating the anniversary of the cave's discovery.
The question is: How ethical is it? Would we rush off to see a copy of the Mona Lisa or the Parthenon, however beautifully reproduced? Tell me!
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