Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
Finding something distasteful is no reason to ban it. People should be able to read whatever they want to. There's nothing theoretical about it. The surest antidote to censorship of what you want to read is to prevent any books from being censored.
Calling society permissive implies that permission is being granted, rather than freedom being exercised. I reject that paternalism. There's nothing principled about censorship.
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