Doc Dutch (03-04-2021), Matt Dillon (03-04-2021)
I can't think of one time where I would support this kind of thing. I get that a publisher can decide what to publish, and that this isn't government action. I am not conflating these things. I am just thinking that removing books from the public sphere has proven to not be a positive action when we look back through history.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Doc Dutch (03-04-2021), Matt Dillon (03-04-2021)
What a silly issue
There are millions of copies
This company made a marketing decision not to make more copies because no one will buy a book that is deemed to send flawed messages to kids
The right is utterly transparent
You CANCEL YOUR OWN PARTY MEMBERS FOR NOT FOLLOWING THE CULT SPEAK
christiefan915 (03-03-2021), Phantasmal (03-04-2021)
christiefan915 (03-03-2021), Jerome (03-04-2021)
It is shocking how much stuff happens now with little objection from the elites that back when I was a kid almost no one would have put up with all, much less silently.
This is your sign that people on the large are rotted out, which is your sign that things will get very bad.
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
I think that removing certain books is not right. But one of the best things about a country with free media is that we have the right to learn about when certain books are banned from library shelves. Burning books implies total eradication so using that word is inflammatory, so to speak. lol Certain books have been publicized as banned since before I was born. The cool thing about publicizing that is that it makes free and intelligent minds want to read them. It has always been so, throughout human history. I've read dozens of them myself. You?
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
AProudLefty (03-03-2021)
Well, according to Phantasmal the word 'Nigger' should be banned and I'm assuming all books and movies that use words of that nature.
I believe she feels our Negro friends are like little children, and will possibly wet themselves if such a word is ever uttered.
Then again, she's told me the US Constitution guarantees that Muslim children have the Right to bring their Prayer Rugs to Public School.
This is why I come to JPP. To gather Knowledge that I was heretofore unaware of.
Oh, and don't get me started on her Theory of Age of Consent being 25!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
Sometimes I wonder if in some case it was done on purpose to boost sales.
ThatOwlWoman (03-04-2021)
Hilliary's emails?.......
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
AProudLefty (03-04-2021)
I literally donated copies of every one of those books about a year ago. Now some are selling for ridiculous prices. I'm sad.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Minister of Truth (03-04-2021)
No. Information should never be destroyed. It is wise to limit information to age appropriate or for security reasons. Why have a book on homemade poisons in an Elementary School library?
It would never be appropriate to burn books just because someone doesn't like the information.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Can one still get them on the kindle?
Controlled Opposition (03-05-2021), Matt Dillon (03-04-2021)
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