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.
Whats more offensive? Burning Books or Burning the Flag?
Jiorgia
2012/06/10 01:16:04
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Top Opinion
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Katherine the Renaissance W... 2012/06/10 21:06:58
while burning flag is done by either your enemies or betrayer and both of them you won't be sorry for as long as you have a book in you left hand and the sword in the other!
Books can be valuable internationally while flag is only symbol of patriotism.......and by burning Flag they cant take the flam of Patriotism from me
just like the word 'respect'.
Knowledge is valuable and often takes years not just to discover and refine, assimilate and dissiminate. It enriches our lives and adds value to our culture(s). It is a very precious comodity. But knowledge must be protected to be preserved, and knowledge can not protect itself.
The Flag, while "only" a symbol, is the symbol of the Nation whose laws and bodies stand between knowledge and barbarism. By destroying that Flag, that symbol, even in protest of some act deemed unlawful or unethical the protestor is displaying disrespect not just for that act, but for All that that symbol represents.
There is no discernment to be found in a person or persons who show such disregard when profaining the symbols of the guarantor of laws and institutions they claim to speek in favouror or place of.
Personally I think anyone who wants to burn either is idiot but hey, have at it.