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Originally Posted by nguirado
By the way, I'm also a teacher (and parent) and would not encourage students to read banned books just because they were banned. We wonder why children lack certain moral characteristics and then encourage them to read things that attack those attitudes.
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Are you saying that you believe that conformity to the government equals moral rectitude?
Or conformity to the opinions of a specific group of people, even if you're not a member of that group?
Nobody learns "moral characteristics" from letting other people tell them what is too dangerous for them to know about. They learn morals from people they respect, and they test those morals by seeing things for themselves and forming opinions. Someone who obeys what they're told to do doesn't have morals; they just have rules.