Poll: Would you ever burn a book?
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No because for me to be in possession of that book would mean that I paid money for it. Why would I buy a book just to burn it?
There is the obvious exception of if I was given the Twilight books (or any really really bad book) as a gift, but such situation would never happen.
edit: If you mean me burning the 1 copy of the book I own, then sure. If you mean throwing every copy of a book into bonfires, then no.
There is the obvious exception of if I was given the Twilight books (or any really really bad book) as a gift, but such situation would never happen.
edit: If you mean me burning the 1 copy of the book I own, then sure. If you mean throwing every copy of a book into bonfires, then no.
I would not burn the only/last copy of a book. Losing knowledge, whether it be insightful, relevent, useful, fiction, porn, another bloody harry potter book, anything. I wouldn't do it. But if it wasn't a unique/last of it's kind book, and I had to for whatever reason, I don't think i'd feel any regret or remorse. It's a lot more symbolic than anything else nowadays anyway.
In an age where you can create a kazillion new copies of a book while on a lunch break just by clicking "download", book burning has really lost its danger. You can't destroy all the copies of a book anymore, it can only be a symbol that you disapprove of something. Since no knowledge can be destroyed, I hold myself open to the possibility of burning a book as a symbolic gesture. Hmm, if I did burn a book it would probably be just to show the ridiculousness of getting freaked out about book burnings in the digital age.
Edit: I should add that it is valid to get freaked out at the idea that someone wants to destroy knowledge, even if the person is too dumb to know book burning can't do so. That there are people in the world who would want to do such a thing is something to get freaked out about.
Edit: I should add that it is valid to get freaked out at the idea that someone wants to destroy knowledge, even if the person is too dumb to know book burning can't do so. That there are people in the world who would want to do such a thing is something to get freaked out about.
yes. the Hebrew bible.
you spend 12 years of your life studying something you dont believe in, and you get a burning hatred towards it.
you spend 12 years of your life studying something you dont believe in, and you get a burning hatred towards it.
No.
Not out of any particular reverence - there are plenty of ideas and world views I utterly despise, and putting them on print does not lessen my disgust - but because it's a needlessly crude and uncivilized form of protest. There are far better ways to give voice to one's contempt.
Not out of any particular reverence - there are plenty of ideas and world views I utterly despise, and putting them on print does not lessen my disgust - but because it's a needlessly crude and uncivilized form of protest. There are far better ways to give voice to one's contempt.
