We’re asking people whether being a tourist at a memorial site is important or whether it’s morbid.
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00:00 And people think, "Oh, that's just really weird,"
00:02 but I think everybody needs to go and see how awful things are
00:07 and how awful things were, just so we can go and pay a bit of respect.
00:11 But no, I think they're a really good thing,
00:13 and it's part of our history.
00:15 It is a bit strange, but in a bizarre way, I would like to visit.
00:19 I know my dad's visited Outswitch,
00:21 and he said it was interesting and everything,
00:23 very sad and very depressing.
00:25 And I just think it's like my dad wants to be depressing
00:28 or something like that.
00:30 But then when I think about it, I think, "Yeah, I'd like to go,"
00:33 because it's a historic place, things happen there.
00:35 People go to battle sites, don't they, where things have happened?
00:38 It is fascinating, but not in a bad way, in a sad way,
00:42 but you just need to appreciate how awful things were
00:45 and what awful things have happened,
00:47 and just to be glad that some things have resolved themselves,
00:51 even though new conflicts start and new things happen.
00:54 It's just nice to basically pay your respects to people,
00:57 people because this surrenders what's going on in the past.