Top 10 Banned Books

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It's impossible to prove the non-occurrence of anything. But banning pornography has prevented niether porn, nor sex, nor rape. Banning murder doesn't stop people from murdering, and banning discrimination doesn't stop people from being intolerant.

Of course people should be allowed to discuss flying airplanes into buildings. Would making it illegal to discuss it prevent them from doing so?

Ideas on their own are never dangerous. Only their implementation.

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I feel all people should have all knowledge and ideas available to them. I feel it is wrong to take it upon myself to decide who is and who is not able to handle topic X, and I'm really opposed to anyone else deciding it for me. I don't believe a society or culture that does such things is as good as one that allows freedom and choice.

It reminds me of a ST:TNG episode - The Last Outpost:

PORTAL: What of them? Shall I destroy them?

RIKER: Then they would learn nothing.

PORTAL: A most interesting conclusion. But what if they will never learn, Riker?

RIKER: Is this a test also?

PORTAL: In life, one is always tested.

RIKER: I find them very much as we were a several hundred years ago, but possessing the technology they have now, they're very dangerous.

(KAYRON: Untrue! We seek friendship with you!)

RIKER: But we can hardly hate what we once were. They may grow and learn.

PORTAL: And learn ways to destroy you.

RIKER: Our values require us to face that possibility.

[duchess of malfi]

I guess it's not politically correct anymore to have a mentally challenged behemoth going around squeezing things to death...

That, and the author also uses the n-word (though the book itself takes a strong stand against racism).

I would think the Bible would also be on the list? When the Bible was first being translated into vernacular languages and printed as part of the rise of Protestantism, wasn't it subject to being burned (and the people associated with it also being subject to being arrested and/or burned)? Along with works on Protestant theology? Or should that subject be left for the Close?