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Interesting question.
I'd have to say yes, burning books, even books like mein kampf, is always wrong.
If they are hatefilled and despicable let people read them and they will come to the same conclusion. But the destruction of an idea is always wrong, let people decide on their own, and just have faith they'll make the right decision.
I'm totally with herzog here. That's a rare and beautiful thing.
Censorship is a bad thing, even when the thing you want to censor is repulsive.
Further to Herzog's comment: destroy an idea and it will inevitable be reproduced in the future.
Allow a bad idea to live and you can build around it a network of criticism and warnings to future generations.
inevitablY - wtf is wrong with me today....
I've actually wanted to read Mein Kampf for a long time out of sheer curiosity.
Besides, the more we ignore history, the more likely it is that history will repeat itself.
Very hypocritical, how can we challenge the ideas in the book, if we cant read it.
Yes. You don't burn books merely because you disagree with (or actually despise) their contents.
Yes because that was exactly what the Nazis did,they burned books they did not agree with.
You mean like how LCD banned Socrates from this site. All Socrates did was cite the Mein Kampf so that it could be condemned as racist. LCD banned Socrates because of this. But I think it was more about LCD wanting to get rid of Socrates because he didn't like that user's political opinions.
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