• frostbiker@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I do not approve of burning holy books, but I think it should be legal.

    What people shouldn’t do and what should be banned are different things. I don’t want to live in a place where what is not mandatory is banned. There has to be some room for freedom of expression, even for people expressing ideas we dislike.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      I do not approve of burning books, full stop. I couldn’t care less whose imaginary friend the book is or isn’t about.

      But I completely agree that the government should categorically not be legislating which books you can and cannot burn. Burning a book is a form of free speech. It’s often offensive to many people, but it’s still important - if for no other reason than it lets the people doing the burning show their true colors.