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Originally Posted by shalym
Yes...it's possible to disagree with them, and if you* do, the proper response is to not read what they write. I don't believe it's proper to change what they have written to "clean it up". There are millions of books to read, a large portion of which were probably written by authors that you do agree with. Why not read those books, rather than try to change the other ones to fit your definition of "clean"?
Shari
*To clarify, I am using the collective "you". I am not intending to call out any specific person.
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Interesting. If we may go slightly ad absurdium for the sake of argument, and Devil's advocacy:
What makes your words so perfect and inviolate? You deliver them from a burning bush or something? Folk tales, songs, legends, get altered and evolved and changed for peoples and cultures and that's pretty much what DEFINES cultures. If you don't want your words changed, don't publish them. Perhaps the reason that classics are classics is because the words are good, and most people don't WANT to change them, it's not because they were prohibited from changing them. There is nothing IMPROPER about that response. Maybe if lots of people want to change your words, it just means the original words weren't very good.