Thread: Missouri public school bans Kurt Vonnegut's 'Slaughterhouse Five'.
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Old 07-27-2011, 11:50 AM   #94
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
As far as violence goes... well a big part of the overall point of the book is to expose the atrocities of war, so... yeah.
High school students must be shielded from knowledge of the atrocities of war. Otherwise, they might be less inclined to sign up as cannon fodder, uh, soldiers.

I simply can not understand how someone can simultaneously be too young and tender to know about something and old and tough enough to participate.
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