Thread: Are public libraries inadequate?
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Old 06-05-2012, 11:23 PM   #6
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by Giggleton View Post
We have to assume that if we are able to read something we should be able to read it, why would we assume anything different??
Uh, no.
There is no reason to make such an assumption on a global scale.
Not as a given. Not in a world with 200 governments, 1000+ cultures, and societies ranging from space traveling to neo-lithic with plenty of medieval cultures still around in between.
I'm sorry to say that statement smacks of ivory tower entitlement.

Could you please offer up some justification for such an assumption?
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