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I am against the burning of books disguised as freedom of speech.
It is bad for the environment. Too much co2 production in the process. If you must destroy books, recycle them!
The Nazis did this very popularly. I always get reminded of that, when people burn books.
I feel it is a very marginal impact into freedom of speech. I can not remember a single occasion where I had to burn a book to be able to articulate my thoughts.
I think most countries ban burning houses, even if it is infringing the freedom of speech. Why should it be different with books?
Houses are not a medium to spread information. A book is , it means something so it is speech. Just like burning the US flag is allow because the first amendment allow us to judge and say fuck to our government.
in the US it is allowed. In many countries it is not alloeed to burn flags in public.
But in the US it also counts as free speech to bribe politicians and disrupt funerals for gay soldiers KIA so i am not sure the US has the best approach to free speech.