Poll: Would you ever burn a book?

[Haydyn]

As far as burning religious texts or controversial statements? No. When it comes to things like Twilight, then yes. Congradulations, Twilights fangirls! You officially have a more controversial standpoint than Hitler, OJ Simpson, religious extremists, celebrity assassinators, and people who use racial slurs in their literature to highlight real racism that took place.

(Seriosuly, who has the right to alter classic literature because they believe it is offensive?)

 

[dante brevity]

Fallout 3 taught me that paper books still have value, if only after the apocalypse. Why take any information out of the hand of humanity after the bombs fall?

 

[ultratog1028]

No. Burning a book always has seemed to me as a mind control attempt. It destroys knowledge, wastes resources, and is usually done to halt opinions differing then your own, which is extremely ignorant considering that you are claiming to be more correct then anyone else. Just because an opinion differs from mine doesn't mean I have to destroy it's source. It simply means they had a different view point then me.

 

[Azzy222]

Only Twilight books...

 

[ultratog1028]

Why not?

It's just paper.

So are $100 bills, the US constitution, your birth certificate, and the Swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated.

Would you burn those simply because they are paper?

 

[binvjoh]

Why not?

It's just paper.

So are $100 bills, the US constitution, your birth certificate, and the Swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated.

Would you burn those simply because they are paper

Those are specified objects, simply saying "a book" isn't going to provoke any sort of emotional response in me.

 

[subtlefuge]

I once burned a bible because my friends were going on about how it was sacred and that we needed to treat it with respect.

I listened to them all day before grabbing one (it was one of those small ones they give out at schools) and burning it in front of them. The shock on some peoples faces was awesome.

Ahhhh, I enjoyed that day :3

I wish I understood how you felt, but to me burning any book makes the joke on you. It shows intolerance and ignorance.

 

[Tulks]

Only if I were shoor that it wouldn't make me a goosh-shtepping moron.

 

[gregitaly]

Very true. And it's something almost a little too easy to slip into on the Internet (guilty as charged!). You start to get into bad habits like commenting on world-affairs threads without reading around the subject, lazily assuming the OP has actually read the article he's reacting to, and so on. It may be less (stupidly) impressive but often enough, not knowing what to make of something is a perfectly acceptable position to be in for those of us not looking to inflate our ego.

Is it a fear of making decisions? No, I think I'm just fearful of people who feel they have the right to arbitarily make decisions for other people. Librarians don't tell you what (not) to read, they help you find what your after and make relevant suggestions.

Ah I believe it was Descartes who once so eloquently opined: "Tru Dat Dawg!"

 

[IndianaJonny]

Very true. And it's something almost a little too easy to slip into on the Internet (guilty as charged!). You start to get into bad habits like commenting on world-affairs threads without reading around the subject, lazily assuming the OP has actually read the article he's reacting to, and so on. It may be less (stupidly) impressive but often enough, not knowing what to make of something is a perfectly acceptable position to be in for those of us not looking to inflate our ego.

Is it a fear of making decisions? No, I think I'm just fearful of people who feel they have the right to arbitarily make decisions for other people. Librarians don't tell you what (not) to read, they help you find what your after and make relevant suggestions.

Ah I believe it was Descartes who once so eloquently opined: "Tru Dat Dawg!"

Yeah, it was either him or Marie Curie; sometimes I just can't tell them apart.

 

[badmunky64]

I burned my old high school textbooks once...it smelled like self-doubt

 

[Dogstile]

I once burned a bible because my friends were going on about how it was sacred and that we needed to treat it with respect.

I listened to them all day before grabbing one (it was one of those small ones they give out at schools) and burning it in front of them. The shock on some peoples faces was awesome.

Ahhhh, I enjoyed that day :3

I wish I understood how you felt, but to me burning any book makes the joke on you. It shows intolerance and ignorance.

I get the bibles lessons and I get why people want to tell me how great it is. Its just I was fed up with people telling me I should be religious.

I've tried, i've tried and i've tried, i'm not and they wouldn't shut up. I shocked them, they shut up and stopped trying. We all win! Right?

 

[mjc0961]

Yes. Why would I not burn a book? It's not like books are flags. They're just books.

Of course, the situation would have to warrant it. I don't go around burning anything, including books, for no good reason.

 

[Simon1]

Only if its Twilight

 

[Gkthepwner]

Yeha sure. Why are you guys so attached to them?
Would burn the Twilight series, any random Justin Beiber biographies, etc.
Aka, books that suck.

 

[Arcane Azmadi]

Yes, if it was a vile, irredeemable tome of baseless hate speach and bigotry.

 

[YesIPlayTheBagpipes]

twlight, mien kampf and any justine beiber autobiographies sounds right

 

[Jessta]

If I was given a good reason and it wasn't a book I particularly cared for... Hell I would burn a book I LOVED if it was for a REALLY REALLY REALLY good reason, like staying alive whilst freezing to death.

 

[fooddood3]

I once burned a bible because my friends were going on about how it was sacred and that we needed to treat it with respect.

I listened to them all day before grabbing one (it was one of those small ones they give out at schools) and burning it in front of them. The shock on some peoples faces was awesome.

Ahhhh, I enjoyed that day :3

That's kind of a dick move...

 

[alittlepepper]

I have burned a couple of books, usually ones I really hated. You can slate pretty much any Dickensian work into this category (I appreciate the realism of stories but my god he just had no idea how to shut the hell up already), as well as The Scarlet Letter, but there was one book I read of my own volition that I hated so much that I basically purged it from my memory. I vaguely remember what it was about, but I can't recall the title. It was slow, dull, boring, ineffective, lethargic, and about as predictable as playing Pac Man. Which is bad for a horror book.
So yes, I read all the way through it because I swore to myself I would, then promptly took it outside, soaked it in petrol, wrapped it in Chinese firecrackers and lit the whole damn thing off at once.