Poll: Would you ever burn a book?
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Basically I wouldn't burn a book if it was well written or contributed some good to the arts or humanity.... In my opinion XD
None of them can read or write, so you don't have to worry about that nightmare coming true.JJMUG said:
Yes, but probably not for any ideological reason. And even then, it would be for lack of content, rather than content. I.e. i would burn a book if it was worthless, but not because i found it offensive.
If only that were true. Snooki has a book out (obviously it was ghost-written, since she's surely illiterate, but still...). Also, i think i've seen body-building books or "How to be a douchebag" books by The Situation.PissOffRoth said:
Generally, no. I once read that, paraphrasing, "burning a book is tantamount to killing a person". If in the act of burning a book you are trying to destroy the message it conveys, what it tries to teach, or the ideas expressed, you are doing something as criminal as taking a life. For what makes a person more than their beliefs, ideas, and knowledge? For what they are passionate about and what drives them to do what they did in life is what made their existance unique. Even the most paltry of novels are an expression of the person, whomever it is.
However, many books are mass produced and the burning of a few is unlikely to detract from the ideas, education or messages they express; in fact if done symbolically it tends to have the reverse effect and inspire more to find out what was so dangerous it had to be covered up. If I needed, in an extreme scenario, something to burn and all that was available to me was books, I would burn some to achieved whatever it is I desperately needed fire for. A good example is the scenario they are put in in the Day After Tomorrow, where the characters are trapped in a library and require heat to protect themselves from the siberian-like temperatures outside. They burnt tax-records I believe...
However, many books are mass produced and the burning of a few is unlikely to detract from the ideas, education or messages they express; in fact if done symbolically it tends to have the reverse effect and inspire more to find out what was so dangerous it had to be covered up. If I needed, in an extreme scenario, something to burn and all that was available to me was books, I would burn some to achieved whatever it is I desperately needed fire for. A good example is the scenario they are put in in the Day After Tomorrow, where the characters are trapped in a library and require heat to protect themselves from the siberian-like temperatures outside. They burnt tax-records I believe...
I have. A bunch of my textbooks from college (this was pre-eBay) when I graduated. I knew I could never sell the old editions. My friends and I had a bonfire on my parents farm where it was mostly text books.
That colored ink smells bad.
That colored ink smells bad.
Only if the book deserves it.
...OK, serious time.
I've burned school books before, because a friend of mine used to host end-of-the-[school]year book-burning parties, but the only books I recall burning were old, filled up notebooks. Actually, I don't think anybody ever burned an actual textbook at one of those parties.
As for regular books, well... It'd have to be a REALLY bad book for me to hate it so much to warrant a burning. Considering how few books I buy per year, I highly doubt I'd buy a book that I didn't think was worth my time, and I highly doubt I'd go out and waste my money on a book I'm sure I'll hate. And I'm more the type of person who would give a book away when I'm done with it anyway.
So for me to burn a book, it would have to be a real pile of crap, so irredeemable I wouldn't dare let it fall into the hands of another and sully their eyes/mind with its filth, for it to warrant me wasting the time, money, and effort required to burn it.
In other words, it has to be so bad it deserves being wiped off the face of the earth.
...OK, serious time.
I've burned school books before, because a friend of mine used to host end-of-the-[school]year book-burning parties, but the only books I recall burning were old, filled up notebooks. Actually, I don't think anybody ever burned an actual textbook at one of those parties.
As for regular books, well... It'd have to be a REALLY bad book for me to hate it so much to warrant a burning. Considering how few books I buy per year, I highly doubt I'd buy a book that I didn't think was worth my time, and I highly doubt I'd go out and waste my money on a book I'm sure I'll hate. And I'm more the type of person who would give a book away when I'm done with it anyway.
So for me to burn a book, it would have to be a real pile of crap, so irredeemable I wouldn't dare let it fall into the hands of another and sully their eyes/mind with its filth, for it to warrant me wasting the time, money, and effort required to burn it.
In other words, it has to be so bad it deserves being wiped off the face of the earth.
Yes, because if I ever have to read a book that states being "sociologically mindful" or anything near using our "sociological mindfulness" I swear I will throw that thing into the closest open fire.
Story behind it is in my sociology class we had to read a book by someone the professor knew from his grad years. Any way every other sentence used one or both of the above terms and it was really really annoying. The book made the author sound up in himself and went over very small problems in society that the author blew out of proportion just so he could have a reason to write a book. Oh and the title of the book was something like "Examining the sociological mindful mind" or something similar.
Story behind it is in my sociology class we had to read a book by someone the professor knew from his grad years. Any way every other sentence used one or both of the above terms and it was really really annoying. The book made the author sound up in himself and went over very small problems in society that the author blew out of proportion just so he could have a reason to write a book. Oh and the title of the book was something like "Examining the sociological mindful mind" or something similar.
No I don't. You think I do. I get along just fine without respecting words on paper.GamerMage said:
Besides, one would argue its not the book that has meaning, its the lessons within its pages. Now that there are thousands of copies of the bible, I doubt one less copy is gonna harm the world. At that point in my life I was tired of people telling me that I should respect something I don't believe in, even if said thing is constantly telling me i'm a bad person.
In fact, I still am annoyed by people who think what I do is their business. If its so bad and god does exist, he can take it up with me when I pass on.
