Why do people ban books and don't really care about the author's hard work?
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People think that what they believe is the absolute truth and therefore any contrary opinions are harmful.  The ego of these people knows no bounds.
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They also seem to forget the whole 'wipe the dust off your sandals' thing.\n\nGeeze, if you're not even going to pay attention to your stupid book, why the hell should I even consider it!?
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Governments do it all the time but I think it's immoral.\n\nIn some cases it might be justifiable for works that are just plain obscene or promote violence, works that accomplish nothing except make the world a worse place - turn people to criminals, or something that makes you worse off from reading it and has no beneficial value to anyone.
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LOL! That is a weird theory, but I know what you mean. It is a joke to think people would take a book as more proof than scientific facts. And a god that is constantly destroying his own creation for political reasons is even more absurd.
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There are a couple of answers.\nFirst, books' copyrights don't say they shouldn't be read by more than one person. They say the book shouldn't be copied, or sold in a different manner (with a different cover, etc.)\nSecond, when you borrow from a public library, some of your money is ultimately going to the publisher.\nThird, only one person is reading the book at a time, so it isn't a problem of "massive copying." With file-sharing, millions of people could be listening to the same song.
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All race-hate, political correctness, anti-blasphemy and similar regressive and primitive  laws should be abolished or ignored:  "I care not for what they say, but I will lay down my life in defence of their right to say it" (Dickens 'A tale of two cities') People must be free to say what they think: no one can be made to listen to or agree with them and I will not be told by a bunch of politicians, religious crackpots, 'do gooders' or any other self- interest group or cardboard 'little Hitler' what I should think!\nCensorship of any description is nothing more than an attempt by one group of biggots to forcibly foist their jaundiced views on the rest of us. Remember 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' when the publishers were hauled before the courts because 'they' claimed that it would 'deprave and corrupt' - but failed to produce a single example of one such?  But what about those who had read it in order to object to it's content - surely they must have been 'depraved and corrupted' themselves in order to recognise the symptons - isn't there a parallel here somewhere?
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Banned? Where? In your school district?\n\nGenerally speaking, books are banned when fascists have their way.
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In what society? What country? Around here, reading, pop literature, etc. is considered cool. Being able to discuss what you have read is even cooler.\n\nThe only people I have ever seen put down reading are usually those of limited intelligence.
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"Lord of the Flies" was banned based on the notion that the book is violent and oppressive, goes against religious ideals and expresses the notion that man is by nature evil and savage.\n\nThis might help: http://www.academon.com/lib/paper/56845.html
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No way! Those books are works of geniuses! They're made out of a writer's imagination and I just dont see how religion can be related. Besides, if you are really strong in your faith you would not be swayed in your belief no matter what you read
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No, because that's taking away free speech. It's the same as telling people they cannot write or publish books....
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Using the current example of that harvard student that plagiarized other books to write her own illustrates that authors are affected/hurt by plagiarism, as the cheater is stealing from that author. \n\nI believe that plagiarism is a HUGE problem, specially now that there is so much information on the web from where to copy and paste ideas.
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THE PERSON WITH HIGH MARKS LACKS GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AND CREATIVITY,HE KNOWS ONLY WHAT IS PRINTED IN HIS BOOKS.THE TREND OF JUDGING A PERSON BY HIS MARKS IS DECLINING & IT IS A HEALTHY SIGN.
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When people make such a big deal out of these so called movie stars. \nIn my book most of them just got a lucky break, and they need to realize it. And people should stop feeding they're ego.
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While we don't want to "ban books" or "burn books" it should be established in schools that Nazi Germany did kill 12 million people in the concentration camps, and while the Nazi's burned books,  and we don't do that here in the West,  in modern society,  we still recognize that will some people have a right to be an @ss, they are wrong, and the established history is just that, an established history.\n\nLets present both sides.  The one side is a piece of sh*t, and the other side is a) hitler wanted it, and b) people went through it and saw it with their eyes.
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I dont mind people looking for help,\nbut kids who just type in their homework questions straight from the book and expect answers should be banned.  Especially when its math and they say "show your work".
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I think whomever told you about Fahrenheit 451 must have confused you with the subject of the story, since it is about books being outlawed and an individual who tries to save them.\n\nSeveral books have been banned in the U.S, among them James Joyce's Ulysses, considered one of the best novels of the 20th century. Many other books have been banned in smaller communities, even recently, anymore those tend to be isolated incedents, I'd like to think in this day and age State or Federal authorities wouldn't be able to wholesale ban something based on 1st amendment rights. The link below from the University of Pennsylvania outlines some bannings, not only in the United States but abroad as well.