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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
Yours (as a moderator) isn't an easy task. Great Books contain large ideas, and large ideas inspire controversy. Keeping politics and religion out of the lounge is an admirable and worthy goal (I speak as one whose hands are not entirely clean), but there should be, I think, a place for those of us who would like to discuss these large ideas with our MobileRead friends who wish to do so. But in any case, ad hominem attacks, racial insensitivity, and name-calling should not be tolerated.
Do we want to be a community where only safe and sanitized books can be discussed? Should Plato's works be banned from discussion because his ideas of government were anti-democratic? Should Marx? Should we not allow Tolstoy's War and Peace because of the theological speculation within its pages that Napoleon might be the Anti-Christ?
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that is more or less in a nutshell the problem we face, yes.