Under The Sun Every Day Just Comes & Goes discussion

Books are banned every day from libraries, schools, and other places. For multiple reasons from being to graphic, to being anti this or that, what ever. To this day churches still have book burnings... why?

I ask you.

When should a book be banned? Why should it be banned because someone doesn't agree with the content?

You don't think some books should be banned?

I don't think they should necessarily be banned, but rather there should be some kind of rating system or perhaps a warning of some type as to the content of the book.
As for schools I suppose its their prerogative to limit or monitor what books they carry, however I don't think they have the right to tell a student they can't read a book that the student has bought themselves, I think that's crossing a line.

I think that banning a book is wonderful advertising for it, because one way of another it ignites curiosity, and that usually tends to mean that banned or not, those interested enough to ask why will usually find a way to get their hands on it.
Perhaps before when societies were homogeneous and lived according to one core mentality it would have been easier, but with globalisation and shifting perspectives and the advocacy of tolerance,the one man's meat is another man's poison can lead to some sensitivity over what is read.

Define banned.

I think it's perfectly fine for a school, library, or business to not allow some books in its vicinity on account for being too graphic or too opinionated or whatever. They have their right to screen if they want. However, if you want to make a book illegal, I think that's crossing the line. You're welcome to not carry it in your store, but to arrest anyone who does is kind of infringing rights.

Agreed, whether or not a book ought to be banned has to be defined by the context which leads it to be banned, and by whom, or which authority? How wide ranging is the ban, and what kind of ramifications are there for infringements of said ban? Within an instution, where a certain intellectual or moral climate is being fostered, perhaps the notion of inappropriate reading material carries more weight, as you would certainly not want a child's version of American psycho to circulate among primary schools, which brings another role, that of the publisher, the author and the target market. It is up to them what impact is generated by the book, and whether or not it will incur an inflammatory response from the self-appointed moral authorities.

@Done
"I think it's perfectly fine for a school, library, or business to not allow some books in its vicinity on account for being too graphic or too opinionated or whatever."

I was with you at graphic; obviously books like Black Dagger Brotherhood shouldn't be allowed in schools

... you lost me with opinionated. Why can't a book be opinionated? Like the book "White Victims, Black Villains: Gender, Race, and Crime News in US Culture."

I have not read either of those, so... I'm just going to pretend that I know they're graphic/opinionated.

When I say opinionated I mean that if a business or something has a library or funded a library then it's fine for them to not want books that are anti-whatever that business stands for. In the same way you wouldn't see anti-smoking ads all over a tobacco company.

Hmm... True... maybe I should add to the intro thing... public places not business owned stuff.


On a side note most anti smoking things are funded by tobacco companies...

....Why in the world would they do that?

To cover their own ass. Ever wonder how they get away with not placing ingredients on their products?

Well, considering I've never held/seen close enough to read anything tobacco, no, I haven't.

But I have wondered many times how cigarettes are legal and other drugs aren't. Cigarettes sound way worse than a lot of illegal stuff.

Seriously?

That is true and untrue...

Book burnings epitomize the pinnacle of ignorance.

Miles wrote: "Book burnings epitomize the pinnacle of ignorance."

Happens to this day...

Yeah, sad but true...

Perhaps some day mankind will mature beyond this form of ignorance. It seems that too many still want to destroy what they don't understand or agree with.

"Perhaps some day mankind will mature"

Do you believe in Santa Claus too? Kidding.

Ha ha! Guess I'm a bit of an optimist!

Obviously. But I do agree on the latter of your statement.

bibliophile, sounds like a name I would give christians...

I know... but think about it for a second... and it sounds suspiciously like an insult to Bible freaks

...?

Only you would think of something like that Ox.

What? No...

No book should ever be banned. There have been so many important things lost because someone decided that they "had no value" or because they feared what they contained, or other ridiculous things along those lines.

Why are we blaming communism?

read the book awaken by katie kavincsky and youll find out.

@Reem
Why? Christianity has been burning books for longer than communism has been around...still do to