Subject: Re: book burning
From: Josh Feldmeth (sportcarrier@earthlink.net)
Date: Tue Jun 24 1997 - 12:48:11 GMT
Matthew_Stevenson@BAYLOR.EDU wrote:
>
> Malcs-
>
> light a candle . . . or a flag . . . or a book--it's all about the right to
> express an opinion in a way which, while others may find it offensive, you find
> helpful. i personally would never fire up a book or flag as a display of my
> personal opinions, but who am i to judge the methods of others? i would never
> write a single great book and then run away from all humanity either, but ol' jd
> still has his good points. and maybe his way is better than mine.--matt
Didn't Churchhill say something like, "Democracy is the worst form of government,
but its better than all the rest." The constitutional book burning latitude is
one of those paradoxes that is also the best thing going. But the right to do it
is followed closely by the right to critize those who do it and for what is worth,
I think buring books, although protected, is tacky and cheaply sensationalist.
Asserting personal opinion by quashing other's chafes at (what my college
government professors called) the free market of ideas.
All good things,
Josh
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