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Originally Posted by HarryT
The danger comes when you go from "I don't want to read that book" to "nobody else should be allowed to read it either".
If a book breaks the law, which a book containing instructions for child molestation certainly would (in the UK, anyway), the bookseller would be breaking the law in selling it. If a book merely offends you (as some books seem to offend some religious nuts), then that's a perfectly valid reason not to buy it yourself, but no reason at all to think that you have the right to let your morals dictate what other people should or should not be allowed to read.
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True but my point was that some (such as my example) would be worthy of being condemned without reading. Probably there are very few that would fit in that area but there are undoubtably a few others. While Amazon did pull the book quickly the self-publish era we live in makes it easier for such books to be released into the public venue. A traditional publisher would I think have refused to even consider having it up for sale of course.