Banning anything is ridiculous, really. |
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Although I am no expert on this subject I would to argue that it goes against freedom of speech. A sacred right in America. |
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Banning anything is ridiculous, really. |
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The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. - Frédéric Bastiat
I try to deny myself any illusions or delusions, and I think that this perhaps entitles me to try and deny the same to others, at least as long as they refuse to keep their fantasies to themselves. - Christopher Hitchens
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Depends on context. If we're talking outright "This book shall not be sold nor read in the United States" then I'd agree with you wholeheartedly. However, if a school district has banned certain books from their curriculum then I can understand it. In the same respect, I could get behind the restriction of certain literature until an age requirement is met, as is done with movies. I had a 13 year old ask me if I've ever read Chuck Palahniuk's "Choke" once. I allowed as how I had, but immediately regretted it, as he tried to talk to me about the book. There are some things kids should have to wait to know about. |
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(((O It is a good viewpoint to look at the world as if it were a dream. If one were to have something like a nightmare, he would wake up and tell himself that it was only a dream. It has been said that the world we live in is no different than this. O)))
Of course it is wrong. Banning anything that can not cause anyone harm is wrong. Banning ideas are even worse. No matter how stupid or bad a book may be, it should never be banned. |
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Just to throw a wrench in the debate... |
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I thought I was pretty clear. When I say its never acceptable I mean never. No circumstance is ever going to make me change my mind, because a book can't harm anyone. |
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Although I agree that a book should never be banned, |
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Ideas don't hurt people, only a person following the idea can. As for words hurting people. I think its a little silly to worry that someone might be hurt by what a book says. If it offends them they simply need to put the book down. |
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Banning said book won't stop the harm from coming, however; it will just force it to take another medium. Banning books isn't the answer to stopping anything except education. Education, on the other hand is a good way to ensure that the content of a book doesn't serve to do harm to people unchecked, if that makes sense. |
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The reaction going on in the brain in response to an idea is not entirely unlike the reaction that follows from eating bad food (or helpful medicine, if the corresponding idea is a good one). Those with more resilient physical qualities may withstand food poisoning better than others, and likewise those with better mental constitutions will not be as effected by persuasive ideas that promote violent behavior. |
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Last edited by Invader; 03-23-2010 at 06:20 AM.
I don't think we should ban any drugs either. If you willingly take a drug, and you know its effect, then more power to you. Its your body do as you will. If you are not harming others, I have no reason to stop you. |
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Hehe, just last week we watched three of Goebbels propaganda movies, but |
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The responsibility lies with those who act on the literature. |
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I think its clear that banning literature is wrong. Freedom of thought is, in my opinion, one of the most important of our freedoms. |
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"...You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world..." - Terence McKenna
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I think that banning literature is an excellent idea, because the banned status is what makes some things so attractive. |
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As far as I know there is no such thing as a banned book in America! Sure, there are schools that ban books. But school is an educational setting and they have to make judgment calls when certain books start saying that the holocaust never happened. |
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Some schools have tried to ban books, though as far as I know, libraries are not allowed to ban books, and most carry even the bad ones. |
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I can't remember the quote, but Robert Anton Wilson once said something like, I want to thank the nuns(refering to the catholic school he went to) for telling me what books not to read. |
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157 is a prime number. The next prime is 163 and the previous prime is 151, which with 157 form a sexy prime triplet. Taking the arithmetic mean of those primes yields 157, thus it is a balanced prime.
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Are there any books out there being banned that you are reffering to, Irken? If so, where in the U.S. is this happening? |
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Nice I was hoping someone would bring up the Anarchist's Cookbook. No no particular books were being banned that inspired me write this. Actually I wrote this after seeing the South Park ad for their episode in which a book is taken off the banned books list and given to the students. |
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When you are banning a something you are basically telling people they are to stupid or irresponsible to act as an adult, and so you have to decide for them, what is or is not acceptable. Which is why most people probably agree that its so bad to try banning things. Though our governments continue to try to ban things all the time. |
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Well, considering in Germany, if you do research in the archives about the Holocaust and try to present findings that alter the official story in any way, you go bye-bye to jail. |
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Last edited by ArcanumNoctis; 03-28-2010 at 10:51 AM.
Isn't that the point of banning a book in the first place? |
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Last edited by detroitLions1970; 03-28-2010 at 11:08 AM.
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