Whats more offensive? Burning Books or Burning the Flag?

by Jiorgia Posted 2012/06/10 01:16:04

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	Burning Books	74 votes	63%
	Burning the Flag	43 votes	37%

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Cameryn 2012/06/11 03:54:14

Burning Books

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Neither is offensive, but I really don't care if people burn the flag.

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boltfox20 2012/06/11 03:26:24

Burning Books

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I don't find either to be offensive. However, burning books destroys information. As such, that's the worse of the two.

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Iamfree 2012/06/11 03:01:07

Burning Books

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I find both to be terribly offensive, but I guess that I find burning the flag offensive as an American and burning books to be offensive as a human being, so I suppose that since I am a human being first, then burning books should be more offensive to me.

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Nan 2012/06/11 02:33:02

Burning Books

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I really think both are terribly offensive.

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Muriel 2012/06/11 01:19:33

Burning Books

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Actually both are offensive. One feeds the mind, the other the soul of America.

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Scream to Muriel 2012/06/11 07:47:28

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Or whatever other country the flag belongs to.

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Jiorgia to Scream 2012/06/11 07:48:57

No i think my flag holds the soul of America :P

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Scream to Jiorgia 2012/06/11 07:54:28

Yes, but other flags do exist. You didn't ask if burning the American flag was more offensive. You said 'the flag'. Which could mean any and all flags.

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Jiorgia to Scream 2012/06/11 09:04:10

yes I know, I am Australian and was joking.

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Scream to Jiorgia 2012/06/11 09:51:55

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Woops. I missed the :P

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Harjot 2012/06/11 01:09:32

Burning Books

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Burning the flag is burning a symbol.Burning books is destroying knowledge.
Burning the flag destroys a symbol of freedom. Burning books destroys freedom itself.
Burning a symbol, however sacred, is less offensive, less damaging than destroying what the symbol represents.

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Kozmo 2012/06/11 00:56:23

Burning Books

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Don't repeat the loss of Alexandria.

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NhytFahl to Kozmo 2012/06/11 11:13:44

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That was one of the greatest tragedies of all time.

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waterlady 2012/06/11 00:40:21

Burning Books

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We are going through the dumbing down of America and the last thing we need is books burned.

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Autumn 2012/06/11 00:05:08

Burning the Flag

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To answer the question, burning the flag is more offensive, because you are insulting a whole nation. But I care more about burning books.

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geegee 2012/06/10 23:59:17

Burning the Flag

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To me, burning the US flag is worse. It is the symbol for our country ! It represents all of us. So, when someone burns a flag, they are saying they'd like to destroy us. If a flag gets old and torn and faded, you are supposed to burn it, not throw it in the garbage. But you are speaking of a riot where there is flag burning out in the streets as a demonstration.

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waterlady to geegee 2012/06/11 00:50:31

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Listen to 4 star General Wesley Clark at the common Wealth Club October 3, 2007. You Tube.He gives a lecture on You Tube about America taking about 7 countries in 5 years. America is now at war with all of the countries listed. America has started WWIII and the public is unawear. We do not follow the constitution, we are following the protocols of Agenda 21 Depopulation. You Tube.
Our government is reducing the population by poisoning the food and water supply in our nation. Chloramine, fluoride, bio-chemical cremations, GMO crops, pesticdes, hydraulic Fracking etc..
I was very partriotic in my youth and ignorance but now I am politically active and keep up on current events. Now I don't salute the flag since old Bush signed an agreement with the United Nations and legalized murder of the American people.

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ruru to waterlady 2012/06/11 02:06:33

WWIII started when 911 happened.

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Jiorgia to ruru 2012/06/11 09:14:59

It's not world war 3, not even close.

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byz 2012/06/10 23:56:06 (edited)

Burning Books

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He who burns books soon burns people..
Burning the flag can be disrespectful, but it can also be a way to draw attention to the use of empty, false patriotism by those in power to disguise undemocratic actions detrimental to the country the flag represents.

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freakoutnow... cuz mom's here 2012/06/10 23:49:39

Burning the Flag

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Burning the flag is more ''offensive'' because it is the open show of disrespect towards a country and it's people. Burning books is more harmful in the long run because books are one way to preserve knowledge for posterity that if lost can be be hard to recover and restore. Also the burning of books can be symptomatic of a narrow minded person or a tyranical government that wants to limit free speech to only what they approve of. Bottom line is you don't openly dis a country by burning it's flag and you shouldn't burn books.

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Crimson 2012/06/10 23:21:29

Burning the Flag

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Both... Burning a flag is like a slap in the face to the people of the nation/country and burning books is just dumb and disrespectful to the author that wrote it.

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Kigan 2012/06/10 23:17:19

Burning Books

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Burning books can cause destruction of irreplaceable items. Often times it is also a symbol of oppressing free speech and creativity to suit an agenda.

Flags are created all the time and there is no danger of that changing.

Burning flags are bad as it is meant to disrespect an entire nation - but nothing is lost when they are burned.

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Vision of Verve 2012/06/10 22:59:19
Posha King 2012/06/10 22:18:03

Burning the Flag

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I hate both nearly equally! I just feel burning books is ignorance and burning flags is hatred. I can ignore stupidity but not evil.

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woodstock 2012/06/10 21:56:04

Burning Books

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Neither answer...You would not read the books you read if it wasn't for the Flag. The Flag represents the Freedom you and I have to read what ever the hell we want to.

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Lily 2012/06/10 21:50:27

Burning Books

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Burning books is the destruction of knowledge, especially first editions. Those are irreplacable. =(

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ticlo7 2012/06/10 21:30:34 (edited)

Burning Books

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You can re-print and re-make a flag in any form; we're running out of books fast.

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Singerar 2012/06/10 21:19:59

Burning Books

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Books are a representative of free speech and history. I adore my Flag and would never burn it but it is cloth. Burning a book for reasons of being "unsuitable" or "controversial" is a push for control in the conservative word and anti-free speech. It's unconstitutional and too close to communism for me.

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PumpkinMuncher 2012/06/10 21:15:28

Burning Books

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Its the destruction of creativity, imagination, and inteligance. While it breads ignorance and intolerance

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Centrist_Bill 2012/06/10 21:12:30

Burning the Flag

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Both are bad but the flag is the Symbol of our great Nation.

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Gimmedap 2012/06/10 21:11:23

Burning Books

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Books are a tangible link to knowledge that ultimately fights prejudice. The flag is a symbol of patriotism and burning can not destroy what's in your heart.

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T A to Gimmedap 2012/06/22 02:21:50

Patriotism is usually a tool of governments to garner support for their projected aims - usually violence. Books can be a link to falsehoods that teach prejudices as well as real knowledge and anti-prejudicial. Their is nothing inherently good or evil in a flag or a book but what is imparted to them and taken from them.

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Katherine the Renaissance W... 2012/06/10 21:06:58

Burning Books

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Burning the Flag is something that is defended by the Supreme Court categorized under Freedom of Speech.

Book burning has a negative connotation from previous events in history. There's nothing more offensive than someone trying to keep a person or group of persons ignorant and in the dark about the horrors and joys of life and history. Book burning is an attempt to control.

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T A to Katheri... 2012/06/22 02:18:38

I once burned a book I owned. Thought it was absolute garbage and couldn't in good conscience ever deign to give it to someone. However, it never occurred to me that I should round up all the copies through force and burn them as well.

I've never burned a flag but mostly because wood is a better fuel. I don't derive my morals or ethics from the Supreme Court.

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Katheri... to T A 2012/06/23 08:19:58

Good for you

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T A to Katheri... 2012/06/23 10:17:13 (edited)

Thanks. It was a good way to start the bbq.

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Jiorgia to T A 2012/06/23 15:14:59

yeah i burned a book once too, it was a school book that we had been forced to read, it bored me to tears so at the end of the school year me and my friends burned all of our schoolwork from that year and that book.

It wasn't about censorship, it was more of a muck up day stunt and a way to release all of our pent up stress after final exams.

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T A to Jiorgia 2012/06/23 19:24:53

Sounds like fun. I hope it wasn't too expensive. :o)

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Hope 2012/06/10 21:03:14

Burning the Flag

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none of them is offensive to me

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