"Jose" wrote in message
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The Mona Lisa isn't useful either I suppose.

No, it's not. It's wonderful that it exists, but there would be absolutely
no suffering in the world should the original Mona Lisa painting be
destroyed. Some people would irrationally bemoan the loss of the painting
(forgetting that the painting WILL eventually be destroyed one way or the
other), but that doesn't make it useful.

Of course, I am assuming you're talking about the original. Most people
have not even seen the original, but there is no shortage of replicas for
those people to appreciate. Likewise, even if the very last P-51 were
destroyed, it would take a LOT longer for there to be no replicas, no
reference, no knowledge whatsoever of it.

Frankly, I don't have a problem with people holding as precious objects like
the P-51. They should recognize the irrationality and futility of doing so,
however (though, of course most probably do not).

Pete