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xg4bx · 10-22-2011, 04:08 PM

[QUOTE=patrickt;1798154]And for me, if a school library chooses to not buy a certain book, it's a responsible decision they're made and not "banning". For example, I would not encourage a high school, or junion high, to have "The Anarchists Cookbook" on their shelves. Books on combat knife fighting would probably best left for other venues. The same would go, in my opinion, for racist hate-literature regardless of the source.

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but if we don't teach our kids about knife fighting for fun and profit, who will? better they learn it from books and dad than on the streets.

i'd put Fight Club, both book and film, in every school. i've learned more about being a man and a citizen of the modern age from that movie than i have from anywhere else.

10-22-2011, 04:08 PM	#22
xg4bx Are you gonna eat that? Posts: 1,633 Karma: 23215128 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Phillipsburg, NJ Device: Kindle 3, Nook STG	[QUOTE=patrickt;1798154]And for me, if a school library chooses to not buy a certain book, it's a responsible decision they're made and not "banning". For example, I would not encourage a high school, or junion high, to have "The Anarchists Cookbook" on their shelves. Books on combat knife fighting would probably best left for other venues. The same would go, in my opinion, for racist hate-literature regardless of the source. [QUOTE] but if we don't teach our kids about knife fighting for fun and profit, who will? better they learn it from books and dad than on the streets. i'd put Fight Club, both book and film, in every school. i've learned more about being a man and a citizen of the modern age from that movie than i have from anywhere else.