(October 3, 2015 at 3:24 pm)Spooky Wrote:(October 3, 2015 at 3:21 pm)Dystopia Wrote: While I agree with this I think it's naive to believe only directly violent actions like bombing or hurting people are relevant - Books can be very dangerous, you don't have to go far, just think that Hitler himself never visited a concentration camp and only wrote some books, gave lectures and speeches and shared his ideas with people.
I don't disagree. Knowledge is power after all.
Yes. People should read books but be careful to not see the entire world trough one category of book's lenses. If I saw the world merely from the perspective of Harris and Dawkins, I'd be missing out a lot of different positions, just like people who see the world according to the bible or even a book like Mein Kampf that promotes anti-Semitism
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
