RE: Koran book burning
September 9, 2010 at 4:45 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2010 at 4:47 pm by Entropist.)
(September 9, 2010 at 4:30 pm)lrh9 Wrote: If you were on the receiving end of the world's ire you would sing a different tune, so you're a fucking hypocrite.
I have been on the receiving end, thankyouverymuch.
Burning a book, any book, is a pointless display of idiocy. I don't give a damn who is doing the burning or what is being burned-- the Bible, Dawkins, the Koran, Lewis Carroll. All you do is look like an idiot. You can't kill an idea by burning a book.
And if I have to spell it out ... yes, I support the U.S. Constitution and I am not a member of the Communist Party, blah blah blah... That is irrelevant to my point.
People that burn books and people that try to stop people by force from burning books BOTH buy into this absurd myth (that by burning books one can kill an idea).
“Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.” ~ E.M. Cioran