Yes. Reasons:
1) I'm cold.
2) To prove a serious point.
3) Twilight
4) Twilight
5) Mein Kampf
6) Twilight
1) I'm cold.
2) To prove a serious point.
3) Twilight
4) Twilight
5) Mein Kampf
6) Twilight
Poll: Would you ever burn a book?
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I would. Why? Why not?
Hey, a book is just a copy of an idea, not the idea itself.
Even a good friend of mine, who is a deeply religious muslim, said with regards to the Quran burning US madman "He would just burn one copy of a book which contains the written ideas of Islam, not Islam itself"
Hey, a book is just a copy of an idea, not the idea itself.
Even a good friend of mine, who is a deeply religious muslim, said with regards to the Quran burning US madman "He would just burn one copy of a book which contains the written ideas of Islam, not Islam itself"
No matter how crappy, how horrible, how much I disagree with just about everything it has to say. I could not really bring myself to burn a book because of the thoughts, despite how bad they may be, were put in it by the author.
Absolutely not. All book burning (unless we're talking like, phone books) is disrespectful and honestly rather frightening. The written word is more than just paper and print, it's the sum total of what our civilization, and humanity in general, has achieved. Maybe some day in the future no more books will be printed and everything will be kept purely in digital form, but that just makes all the books that WERE printed even more valuable!
I do assume libraries and the like need to destroy books now and again because they've simply become too broken to be used, sold or lended. And I also assume that sometimes, say, a book store can't possibly store a large print run of something shitty and they can't get rid of them for free even, and just have to give them to the recyclers. I am not saying that this kind of 'necessary' book destruction is somehow automatically bad (books aren't sacred in that sense), but just arbitrarily burning a book for no practical reason? That IS bad.
I've got books in my shelf that are nearly a hundred years old. I've held books that are older than that, considerably older. Dictionaries, random school books, a book of latin quotes. Today, they're treasures. A hundred years ago, they were just books. That book you're burning? A hundred years from now it'll be a cause of wonderment. No matter its apparent lack of merit or value today, wilfully burning a book is just...inexcusable. Geeze. People really don't react against it more strongly than this? Egads.
Anyway. No. I would never burn a book. I -could- consider putting it into the paper bin if it's truly unsalvageably broken, where it would at least be recycled for its pulp. But burning it? No.
I do assume libraries and the like need to destroy books now and again because they've simply become too broken to be used, sold or lended. And I also assume that sometimes, say, a book store can't possibly store a large print run of something shitty and they can't get rid of them for free even, and just have to give them to the recyclers. I am not saying that this kind of 'necessary' book destruction is somehow automatically bad (books aren't sacred in that sense), but just arbitrarily burning a book for no practical reason? That IS bad.
I've got books in my shelf that are nearly a hundred years old. I've held books that are older than that, considerably older. Dictionaries, random school books, a book of latin quotes. Today, they're treasures. A hundred years ago, they were just books. That book you're burning? A hundred years from now it'll be a cause of wonderment. No matter its apparent lack of merit or value today, wilfully burning a book is just...inexcusable. Geeze. People really don't react against it more strongly than this? Egads.
Anyway. No. I would never burn a book. I -could- consider putting it into the paper bin if it's truly unsalvageably broken, where it would at least be recycled for its pulp. But burning it? No.
I'd burn a book if I was cold. Everything else has some sort of value. Such as Twilight, as an example of how not to write a book about vampires. Even something such as Mein Kampf should be kept for historical reasons.
The only books I've burned are my old school books that I myself that written in.
One time I soaked white spirit to my books. The "poof" was amazing.
One time I soaked white spirit to my books. The "poof" was amazing.
No I wouldn't, not even if they were old school/college textbooks. Burning any book just seems too extreme and always bring to mind small-minded, ignorant idiots. If I don't like the books, or the author, I won't pick it up, simple as that.
Though I will say that if I had to burn something to keep warm, and there was no wood, peat, dried animal dung or anything else that would burn (even old summer clothes) I would burn books for survival.
Though I will say that if I had to burn something to keep warm, and there was no wood, peat, dried animal dung or anything else that would burn (even old summer clothes) I would burn books for survival.
What if it was a book of names of people who were mutants? If they were ever found out they'd be nabbed by their government and probed for life?twistedmic said:
The major problem with such vague hypotheticals is you can think of all sorts of crazy scenarios that are ultimately removed from the original point. I would certainly burn a book that had sensitive information in it that I wanted to cover up.
