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Originally Posted by eppythacher
All very good arguments. I will concede that future morals, in democracies, in 100 years will be hard to predict. However, what about the morals of banning books in the last 3000 years by governments or companies? I believe no one on this board cares about what fascists states thinks about banning books. My point being that no government democracy in human history thinks banning books is a good idea. I guess it would be easy to prove me wrong, since I don't know history very well. I could be wrong, but in regards to the history of morals of book banning in democracies, IF it's true that no democracy in the last 3000 years thought it was a good idea then in the next 100 years you might be able to predict a continuing moral trend.
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1. You are conflating governments banning books with companies not carrying books. In terms of morals, even if no governments ban books in 100 years, I suspect that no one will look askance at *companies* not carrying particular titles.
2. In terms of sexuality, the ancient Greeks (and even Romans) were much more open about this than 19th C England (compare "The Art of Love" with "Pride and Prejudice") or even the present day US. I.e., our parades may have marching bands, but they tend not to feature people carrying giant red leather stuffed phalluses overhead. Even though I think that this would totally up the intimidation factor at HS football games!