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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
That said, books, no matter how terrible, shouldn't be at the risk of falling beneath the blackness of censorship. However, it should be expected that anything published will most certainly run the risk of being ridiculed, ignored, or otherwise criticized. Every book that garners attention will undoubtedly face the often harsh climate generated by book critics around the world.
Ideas should not be barred from reaching the public. But I suspect that it happens all the time where ideas are suppressed in one way or another. I think this happens more often in other ways than the censorship or banning of a book. That thought seems so old school now.
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Yeah, it was with a sort of internal moral guidance that I originally was opposed to the entire idea of burning or censoring a book. I suppose I just wanted to discuss the reasoning behind why we know that. I reckon ultimately it is what Wes stated about the entire discourse and discussion that the positives arise, and that they outweigh the negatives.
I do think that books (and published papers, online or otherwise) are still fundamentally the building block of how we as society map and navigate ideas, although obviously not with the clarity of the Early Modern period, but rather now with a something of a trickle-down model whereby journalists and media personnel extract and/or are influenced by those ideas and presented to the public in a more layperson-friendly approach.