1. It's not like people who claim to be fervently religious (especially where the religion prohibits idolatry) destroying the iconography of another religion/sect is novel. It's been going on since at least ancient Egypt, and we did our share of it too.
2. Buddhism values an acceptance of transience and lack of attachment.
3. Dropping bombs on their houses is worse.
But yes, I'm not being contentious or owt. The Taliban are vile.
Worth saying that tourist traffic visiting the Buddhas was a major source of income to the whole valley. That's arguably the greatest crime of the Taliban; depriving local people of their living.
However, what we need to do is get a 3d render of the statues pre destruction, then using the current crop of 3d printers, we should be able to replicate them. Admittedly, it might only be along the scale of a nice garden ornament at first, but let the technology mature and soon we'll be printing 200ft sky scraping Buddhas like they were going out of fashion.
a) why would it 'hug' more than it already does, just because it has reversed and b) if they did attract each other, the world would not contact, but become more oblate: it's a balloon full of fluid.
