Ten Books to Read Before You Die

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

It's not my fault. The books were asking for it.
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[LMNO]

...Well, at least 2/3rds of them were.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

No really, I fell down the stair and accidentally into the pile of burning books, I swear Officer!
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[the last yatto]

example: say take our current target audience,
get a bunch of spags to dress up in robes and burn a bunch of copies of principia discordia
(which could just be blank pages with the yellow cover)

what do you think reactions would be?

[Brotep]

Throwing away a book as a way of saying you don't like it or want it taking up your space is one thing.  Buring a book strikes me as a way of saying the viewpoints you don't agree with or find harmful should be destroyed, erased from the record, stricken from every obelisk, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.  I'm with Voltaire in the fact that I will disagree plenty with what people say, but I entirely support their right to say it.

I tend to agree.

Books are much like guns though, they are both fundamentally inert until some fool decides to pick them up and make use of them.

So, censorship ≈ gun control?  Interesting...

example: say take our current target audience,
get a bunch of spags to dress up in robes and burn a bunch of copies of principia discordia
(which could just be blank pages with the yellow cover)

what do you think reactions would be?

I would laugh.

[Cainad (dec.)]

No really, I fell down the stair and accidentally into the pile of burning books, I swear Officer!
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"I accidentally the whole Library at Alexandria. Is that bad?"

[Soylent Green]

does deleting an ebook count?

I just imagined a group of people in a circle frantically deleting thousands of copies of secular books and then yelling things like "TAKE THAT HAWKINGS! BLAST YOU RICHARD DAWKINS! PRAISE GOD!" while onlookers pass by.........


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Now I really want to do that