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martindlPaul,
You said "The frustrating aspect of this link for me is that some people are so concerned with undetectable historical alterations. It does not compute to me -- and the only answers you get are basically fanatic responses like "TABOO!" with nary an explanation for why an undetectable alteration matters to them. "But Paul, just because its undetectable doesn't mean it didn't happen." Yeah, but so what. Seriously, so what."
Not sure why a response that doesn't agree with your view is labelled as 'fanatic' nor am I sure why you need to throw condescending comments like "But I appreciate your efforts in attaching a rationale to your opinion". You're trying to play dumb but you're not. You're clearly intelligent and articulate. If you read what some people are saying you'll see that the answer to your question of "so what?" is "because its wrong". Its not wrong in the eyes of the law, actually maybe it is, but for sakes of argument i'll assume it isn't ( I think Adam posted something a long while back about it being unlawful in California to alter a card and resell it).
Just because you can do something and no one can tell and you can get away with it still doesn't make it right. Take that sentence and apply it to something much more sinister and maybe you'll better understand the "because its wrong" camp. Try robbery or burglary or murder for example. I'm trying to provide rationale, so lets not have a bunch of folks claiming i'm trying to equate card alteration with murder please.