The Problem of Old Quebec City

[Treedbear]

I don't get it. You wouldn't care if the Hagia Sophia was destroyed even though you see it as a historic treasure?

Why would I? They rebuilt it twice already, what's one more time?

To me that's cognitive dissonance. To treasure something means there is a desire to preserve it. If something is destroyed it is no longer what it was. That which it is would be gone. Lost. Kaput. When rebuilt it would have value as something else entirely.