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Originally Posted by Laridae
Then you are either terribly naive or totally depraved, sir. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume it's the former. I don't think you'd have to look very hard to find something that would totally gross you out! Are you really willing to defend the indefensible?
Let's not cling to empty platitudes here. The fact that it's difficult to know where to draw the line doesn't obviate the need to have one.
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And you're a book burner, which makes you both naive and depraved. Perhaps the content would "gross me out", but since when as "grossing me out" been a standard to ban books? I might disapprove of some of the content on your shelves, does that give me the right to ban them?
I'm not defending the content, because it doesn't need defending. People have the right to read whatever they want. That's not a platitude, that's a basic human right. That bar you would set so low tends to get raised. Better not to have it at all. It's naive to think that this bar won't be raised, a cursory understanding of history demonstrated this.
We're talking about books, they are just words. We aren't talking about movies, there is no actual people involved, thus there are no victims.