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CripplingLies User ID: 5010858 Brazil 11/14/2012 11:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Burning books is one step before burning infidels. Freedom is about anyone being able to do anything without harming anyone else's freedom. Its the opposite of the cartesian product, which the point is exactly the get the perfect match between two objects(check Venn diagram). In freedom the main goal is everyone having their own freedom, doing whatever they please to, without harming somebody else's freedom. There's no simple way to do that, but love one another. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 19980561 United States 11/14/2012 11:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Burning books is one step before burning infidels. Freedom is about anyone being able to do anything without harming anyone else's freedom. Its the opposite of the cartesian product, which the point is exactly the get the perfect match between two objects(check Venn diagram). In freedom the main goal is everyone having their own freedom, doing whatever they please to, without harming somebody else's freedom. Quoting: CripplingLies There's no simple way to do that, but love one another. :Agreed: |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27573720 United States 11/14/2012 11:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | burning books is suppression of ideas. ideas that go underground can never be debated. it's the same as advocating removal of free speech for some, but not others. eventually, your ideology or speech becomes the "them" to suppress. i hate nazis, but i'd rather have them strutting and speaking on street corners, where the passing dope can debate their positions, than have them spouting their garbage in a basement, where nobody but those that agree can hear. your commitment to liberty is proven by you standing up for the rights of your enemy, not by those you agree with. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 23755636 United Kingdom 11/14/2012 11:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Burning books is one step before burning infidels. Freedom is about anyone being able to do anything without harming anyone else's freedom. Its the opposite of the cartesian product, which the point is exactly the get the perfect match between two objects(check Venn diagram). In freedom the main goal is everyone having their own freedom, doing whatever they please to, without harming somebody else's freedom. Quoting: CripplingLies There's no simple way to do that, but love one another. :Agreed: Well I want the freedom to burn a book! |
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Guenwyfar User ID: 21285652 United States 11/14/2012 11:32 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 50 Shades of Grey.. Guenwyfar "Karma is like a rubberband.. it can only stretch so far before it comes back and smacks you in the face." "Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition." "Religion is like a penis, it's fine to have one and be proud of it, but when you take it out and wave it in my face, that's when we have a problem." |
CripplingLies User ID: 5010858 Brazil 11/14/2012 11:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Anything written by Dan Brown would be a start.. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23755636 Then maybe Shakespeare would cheer from his grave... How can you tell what Shakespeare would like or not? Is too much presumption of you, to think that you and Shakespeare think alike, or worst, you can think better than him did. People are unpredictable. NEVER underestimate the infinite capacity of someone to surprise you. You can live with someone for about 50 years, and one day, they surprise you. I don't appreciate Dan Brown's romances myself, but don't you dare thinking that you can predict somebody else's mind, even more when they were geniuses and are dead for hundreds of years... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 19980561 United States 11/14/2012 11:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Burning books is one step before burning infidels. Freedom is about anyone being able to do anything without harming anyone else's freedom. Its the opposite of the cartesian product, which the point is exactly the get the perfect match between two objects(check Venn diagram). In freedom the main goal is everyone having their own freedom, doing whatever they please to, without harming somebody else's freedom. Quoting: CripplingLies There's no simple way to do that, but love one another. :Agreed: Well I want the freedom to burn a book! If it makes you feel better....Red. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27741990 Poland 11/14/2012 11:36 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | My top five candidates are the Bible, the Talmud, the Koran, the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf. Quoting: skuts These five books are responsible for more grief and human misery than anything else ever put to paper. Spoken like a true liberal! Then when you are done burning books with the liberals how about you go join the Muslim extremist and tear down ancient structures you dumb fucking ass wipe. |
CripplingLies User ID: 5010858 Brazil 11/14/2012 11:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Burning books is one step before burning infidels. Freedom is about anyone being able to do anything without harming anyone else's freedom. Its the opposite of the cartesian product, which the point is exactly the get the perfect match between two objects(check Venn diagram). In freedom the main goal is everyone having their own freedom, doing whatever they please to, without harming somebody else's freedom. Quoting: CripplingLies There's no simple way to do that, but love one another. Well I want the freedom to burn a book! As I said, you have it. But there are people that will be annoyed with that, so, you'll harm this person's freedom. I repeat, there's no simple way to have total freedom to everybody. Freedom itself, is based on respect and tolerance, you may dislike someone's reading habits, but freedom, real freedom, will be you having a rational conversation with this person, explain your point of view and hear his/hers arguments. This is pretty much it, very hard to explain thou... |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 23755636 United Kingdom 11/14/2012 11:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Anything written by Dan Brown would be a start.. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 23755636 Then maybe Shakespeare would cheer from his grave... How can you tell what Shakespeare would like or not? Is too much presumption of you, to think that you and Shakespeare think alike, or worst, you can think better than him did. People are unpredictable. NEVER underestimate the infinite capacity of someone to surprise you. You can live with someone for about 50 years, and one day, they surprise you. I don't appreciate Dan Brown's romances myself, but don't you dare thinking that you can predict somebody else's mind, even more when they were geniuses and are dead for hundreds of years... But you clearly don't understand the use of the words "Then Maybe"... It would probably be best if you skip literature seeing as the meaning of TWO SIMPLE words is clearly above you... |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 27744341 South Africa 11/14/2012 12:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1. Mills & Boon (All of them!) 2. All the Chick™ booklets (Sorry judethz) 3. Any Stephen King 'novel' 4. The Malleus Maleficarum (Bit late now!) 5. Anything endorsed by Oprah!!!! 6. Shades of Gray 7. Treatise on the Diseases Produced by Onanism (Tissot) 8. The Secret (Fuck me!) 9. Anything I may have written :-) |
Epic Beard Guy User ID: 26240425 United States 11/14/2012 12:56 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We don't burn books in America. That is just one form of sensorship. If you don't like what the book says, don't buy it! Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe |
omar User ID: 26136665 United Kingdom 11/14/2012 01:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | We don't burn books in America. That is just one form of sensorship. If you don't like what the book says, don't buy it! Quoting: Epic Beard Guy Indeed [link to www.youtube.com] :spyda: |
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SewDucky User ID: 23684754 United States 11/14/2012 04:12 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | In 1984 by Orwell, they "memory hole" was to burn books that went against the regime. It's a propaganda tool to make us stupider, unable to think for ourselves and to remove ideas that can be harmful to TPTB. It's dangerous to advocate and participate. I don't believe burning a book is right, or an answer. (Idiots that misuse the book is a different story.) Book burning accompanied some really bad things in history. Inquisition with Jewish texts, the Third Reich, etc. "Where they burn books, they will end in burning human beings." Heinrich Heine |
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skuts (OP) User ID: 27757531 United States 11/14/2012 09:08 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thank you all for responding. Perhaps "burn" is a bit too extreme because I do not believe in book burning either. However, certain beliefs are like a cancer in the mind of humanity and have caused untold misery or millions upon millions throughout the course of history. Are there any ideas as to how to counter or excise these ideological diseases for the benefit of future mankind? Conservatives think I'm liberal and liberals think I'm conservative. Fancy that. |