I remember the outrage a decade or two back, when Amazon was selling a "how-to" for child abduction.
Not all books are equal - for instance, a book containing illegal content (Cheese Pizza anyone?)
However this is largely about books as a representation of ideas and philosophies - which cannot and should not be banned, but rather, openly debated and defeated. Book burning and banning is only a problem insofar as it represents the wrong way to deal with disagreeing ideologies.
Like 1930-40s Germany?
Berlin was a cesspool. then Hitler
I remember the outrage a decade or two back, when Amazon was selling a "how-to" for child abduction.
Not all books are equal - for instance, a book containing illegal content (Cheese Pizza anyone?)
However this is largely about books as a representation of ideas and philosophies - which cannot and should not be banned, but rather, openly debated and defeated. Book burning and banning is only a problem insofar as it represents the wrong way to deal with disagreeing ideologies.