This report on the BBC really demonstrates how messed up the world is nowadays.

In 1938 a Jewish family living in Germany sold a painting (Woman Ironing) to pay for their escape from Nazi Germany. The painting is now in the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. The heirs of the Adler family want the painting back; they say that the family were forced to sell it, which they feel was unfair.

I am sorry, but Karl and Rosi Adler chose to sell the painting. The heirs claim that it was sold at below market value (which seems to be true, but not by a huge amount), so I don't see why they feel entitled to have it returned. I understand that the family only sold it because of the Nazi persecution of Jews, and I have sympathy with their plight, but the sale probably saved their lives; the loss of the painting seems a small price to pay for that. The Picasso was not stolen, confiscated or looted, but voluntarily sold by the owners.

I wonder where this tide of entitlement will end. Will someone who lost their job sue for the return of the car that they sold in order to pay their rent and grocery bills? Apparently some people missed the memo about choices and consequences.

Do people really want to live their whole lives swaddled in cotton wool, or only when it suits them?