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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
That's all good and well, but at the same time you can't force them to sell books to you that they don't want to carry. It works both ways. This is not an issue of morality.
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Yes it most obviously is about morality, else why have they withdrawn a book?
Once again, I'm not trying to force them to do anything, they can do whatever they like with their business. As you said it works both ways, I'm making a judgement on their conduct, the very fact that they are apparently deigning not to sell books merely based on content.
They are a bookstore, a business that sells books, the content should be irrelevant to them. Are they going to stop selling Stephen King novels next, are they going to stop selling the Bible because of the rape, incest and mass murder in that ?
They're after taking the first step onto a very slippery slope and while they're perfectly entitled to do that, I'm perfectly entitled to criticise them and argue that it's a step in the wrong direction.