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by steelhamster@aol.com on March 30th, 2007

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Is book burning intrinsically wrong?

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  • by Empress of Everything Ever on March 30th, 2007

    Empress of Everything Ever

    Book burning is a denial of the truth, of others and their opinions and their rights to express them. Book burning is censorship at it's finest and most public and at it's most intimidating and darkest moment.
    It is very wrong.

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  • by wallywam1 on March 30th, 2007

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    Yes. It's incredibly easy to just not read something if you find it offensive. Also, burning a book implies intimidation toward the people who have written/read the book. I guess I just don't really see any good coming from burning a book...

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  • by unknown on April 25th, 2007

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    If you are freezing and there is nothing else to burn to keep warm it's ok to burn books; otherwise it's wrong. IMO

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  • by singwell-is off researching a lot on March 30th, 2007

    singwell-is off researching a lot

    It has never achieved anything in history, and never will. However, its motives were always intimidatory in character.

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  • by hijklmno on April 25th, 2007

    hijklmno

    Some of the books I've read... mmm... I wouldn't be sorry to see them in flames.

    I've actually rescued books from abook burning before. I love books, I collect them, they are an important part of my life. But books are only pieces of paper and they don't automatically contain "truth" or "quality".

    Two questions I'd ask in return:

    a)is forgetting a book intrinsically wrong?
    b)is destroying a CD-ROM instrinsically wrong?

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  • by Brian I on April 25th, 2007

    Brian I

    Yes, absolutely.

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  • by ivanogre on April 25th, 2007

    ivanogre

    Burning a book is wrong. Even if I despised the author, even if I thought the book might be dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands, I wouldn't destroy it entirely. ALL things have SOME value. If it was an excellent "Biological Warfare for Dummies" book, it might need to be kept under a certain amount of control, but for the vast majority of the rest, let individual intelligence, emotional resiliency and moral responsibility rule. So if someone reads a book, and then goes out and kills someone, as far as I'm concerned, that person CHOSE to read that book, and CHOSE to go out and kill someone, and he is responsible for his actions, not the book.

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