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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I would never burn anyone's religious book, no matter how much I disagreed with it. If you can't convince someone to your way of thinking by engaging them in discussion, you surely won't win their hearts and minds by burning their book. Sometimes it's better just to agree to disagree. Book burning is disrespectful.
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Whilst I generally agree, there are places in this world where the punishment for apostasy is the death penalty. In such places there is no possibility of convincing them that it is wrong to kill someone because they have sought to give up a religion. Against such a regime, burning a book seems to pale to nothing, but it may be the only action that is available to those who live under such conditions.