“Roast A Book For Decency.” Y’know, just once I’d like to be at a book burning and announce over a loudspeaker that “I have with me a book I find terribly offensive. It’s just filled with sex, violence, adultery, hypocrisy, genocide, racism, women and children slaughtered, people tortured, truly the most offensive and horrific thing I’ve ever read.”
I’ll refrain from saying the title. Otherwise younger readers could find it.
Sounds like you are referring some form of the Bible or similar religious text. I believe there was once a group of people in central Europe who enjoyed doing that type of thing.
Regardless of what text I’m talking about, the point is that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If Otis and the Moral Minority want to burn things they find offensive, am I not well within my rights to do the same? And for the record, I don’t support any form of book burning. Frankly I’d sooner see people burned than books.
Book burning is wrong I agree, people are always going to be offended no matter what, its like what Ray Bradbury wrote in Farenheight 451. The only problem is that idiots and zealots think that its a good idea to shove their “morality” down people’s throats. I may not agree with everything in books (and I can think of at least two books actually worth burning), but I support free speech and free thought.
Ernest Lemmingway about 14 years ago
“Roast A Book For Decency.” Y’know, just once I’d like to be at a book burning and announce over a loudspeaker that “I have with me a book I find terribly offensive. It’s just filled with sex, violence, adultery, hypocrisy, genocide, racism, women and children slaughtered, people tortured, truly the most offensive and horrific thing I’ve ever read.”
I’ll refrain from saying the title. Otherwise younger readers could find it.
Alcoatari over 13 years ago
Sounds like you are referring some form of the Bible or similar religious text. I believe there was once a group of people in central Europe who enjoyed doing that type of thing.
Ernest Lemmingway over 13 years ago
Regardless of what text I’m talking about, the point is that what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. If Otis and the Moral Minority want to burn things they find offensive, am I not well within my rights to do the same? And for the record, I don’t support any form of book burning. Frankly I’d sooner see people burned than books.
RuinQueenofOblivion about 12 years ago
Book burning is wrong I agree, people are always going to be offended no matter what, its like what Ray Bradbury wrote in Farenheight 451. The only problem is that idiots and zealots think that its a good idea to shove their “morality” down people’s throats. I may not agree with everything in books (and I can think of at least two books actually worth burning), but I support free speech and free thought.