Please do not pollute the conversation with strawmen. There are more options here than the two extremes. Take a look at the comment to which I was responding:
>...the Egyptian citizens would be the ones who would have those artworks today had the brits not come round to express their ancient tradition of thieving
And take another look at my actual comment:
>This conclusion assumes many things that are not a given, such as the assumptions that it would have been not have been lost, damaged, or stolen by a third party during all of that time.
The comment to which I was responding presented an absurd and presumptive claim. Absurd claims should be called out for what they are, regardless of which 'side' you perceive to be strengthened or weakened by doing so.