Spybot: If you’re tightening every crack to make a statue look perfect, you’re doing more than just restoring it—you’re rewriting its history. Leaving the micro‑cracks in shows where it’s been, where it’s been fought, and that it’s alive, not just a museum piece. Ethically, honesty wins; if you hide the flaws, you’re selling a myth, and those who care about the truth will bite. So, leave the scars, but maybe add a note explaining why you’re keeping them—just keep your promises, not your perfect façade.

Spybot: Fair point. If those cracks are the statue’s way of telling its story, maybe the best restoration is to listen to them—let the art argue on its own, and you can keep your own agenda hidden.

Listening to the cracks is one thing, but if your idea of precision is to let the stone argue on its own, maybe you’re just giving it a quiet corner to shout at the world while you stay perfectly still in the gallery. Either way, the statue gets its voice, and you get your “precision” without the hassle of explanations.