Advice Please Redux

[Arikay]

Hello,

This is a seperation from the Advice please thread. I dont really have much to say, since as I said in the thread I was pretty much finished with the conversation, but the Advice please thread was locked anyway, thus this is to get it unlocked, so our original poster friend can have her thread back.

So, um, discuss the morals of book burning, or something.

 

[dlamberth]

Is the moderator going to move the last two post from the previoius thread over to here?

..

 

[Arikay]

Um, sure, if you want her too.

 

[dlamberth]

She mentioned that she would, and it might add a good starting point for this thread.

 

[Philosoft]

Book burning is good. Except when they burn books I like. Then it's bad.

 

[Teh Wiccan]

Book burning is bad. Its a waste of good books.

 

[foolsparade]

book burning is an example of FASCISM! any questions???

 

[Arikay]

Hmm, the Mod said that she would unlock that thread.

Hello, Mod, you there?

 

[Philosoft]

book burning is an example of FASCISM! any questions???

Maybe fascism is an example of book burning. Ever think of that?

 

[The Archangel Aethariel]

This is a good as thread as any to make a random comment so I can finally add a signature. Bloody blessings!


Uh, there is only one possible case in which I would really support book burnin':

A) The book was comprised of blatant falsehoods.
B) The ONLY way to free a significant segment of the population from the lies of the book was to burn the book and destroy the concept entirely. (That is, education, demonstration, and refutation somehow all fail.)

Just in case you're thinking this, I wouldn't treat the Bible as such-- false or not, the text doesn't qualify as comprised of blatant falsehoods. At least not the vast majority of it. By blatant falsehoods I mean things that are demonstrably and obviously false, such as "A & ~A," "The earth is made of chunky red pudding," or the all-time favourite "Night elves are a balanced race in WC3."

~AA