You'd ban those books? why? because they offend your sensibilities?
NO! Not because they offend my
sensibilities, but because they are PROVEN to be highly dangerous to society. That's common sense! There ARE things that make us LESS safe. If we, as a society, fail to recognize and address them, we're fools! I'm only speaking to things that may inspire things of violence, or that are physically highly dangerous, or that can ignite and inflame so as to tear us apart. Yes, that takes wisdom to know the difference. And NO human laws are going to perfectly address what only the collective majority of a society's hearts and minds see as reasonable to prohibit.
well the bible does that for some
Well, ignoring the Bible won't cause harm (at least beyond spiritually so). No one is going to be harmed, hurt or forced to this or that. NO ideas in there command us to harm others. Yes, it might hurt peoples' SENSIBILITIES, but again, that's not what I care about. Note that Germany has banned Nazi-related publications. But, of course, we have to be careful what we allow to be defined as hate speech. Opinions one disagree with are not necessarily dangerous or inspire hate.
Paul: so where and WHO draws the line? the majority? well, that is why we have abortion being legal.
Look, it's true that we have to ask who will draw the line. But if we, as a people, are unwilling to recognize that certain lines need to be drawn, we're hurting ourselves. I would ban abortion in a skinny minute, if I could. Wouldn't you - for abortion used for other than circumstances where a birth would likely take the mother's life (a VERY rare thing, BTW)? Note that while we don't live in a theocracy, God forbade certain things from Israel - because He knew them to be highly destructive and harmful. THAT is showing wisdom. Of course, as we live in a quasi-democracy, and everyone has certain rights, this makes for only a very narrow area of things that would fit what I'm talking about.
The secularists amongst us are already banning, through the courts, what it says is unacceptable and will not be allowed. The idea of truly free expression in America is becoming a sick joke! The pure secularists recognize as useful the idea that unlimited freedom of expression is great - AS LONG AS it is they who define what is allowed and not allowed. And so, then it becomes a matter of numbers of people who have certain sensibilities, who elect people of certain views, who appoint judges and make laws that reflect their sensibilities.
And EVERY news editor, every producer, director, etc., they are constantly editing things to reflect THEIR views, deflecting or eliminating whatever that conflicts. So they are eliminating other ideas from being exposed. So, what I'm speaking of happens anyway. It's just that they don't call it censorship, but free expression as THEY define it!
So, I don't know how we COULD reasonably ban certain things, because many have different sensibilities. I'm just simply saying that allowing certain forms of expression do NOT make us more free - often, much the opposite - although it sounds high and lofty to state such.
