Today ISIS revealed videos of them destroying ancient art at a Mosul Museum, which personally upset me more than anything else and I feel disgusted at myself for that. ISIS has done terrible, horrible things: kidnappings, tortures, rape, killings. Those anger me, but not on the scale as this. I can rationalize this: Human lives come and go, but these artifacts have lasted thousands of years. It'd be as if ISIS figured out a way to blow up the pyramids or burn the Sistine Chapel. It creates a more visceral response than from hearing a statistic. Still, a human life is a human life, and I shouldn't say killing a man is preferable to saving an Akkadian statue. Perhaps it's the historian in me, but that's no excuse.