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Originally Posted by stormcloude
Butting into the discussion-- what people read in the privacy of their own homes does not really apply to "how society operates." If they were posting passages from these books on billboards or reading them aloud on street corners you might have a point.
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I don't agree--I think private behavior does affect how society operates. What I do in the privacy of my home affects how I interact with people outside of my home.
And we're talking here about my earlier stated desire that these books did not exist (again, not a desire to ban or burn them, just a moral preference that they did not exist). Their creation and online distribution is certainly a societal issue as it intrinsically involves more than one person.