Should some books be banned from libraries?

by Assassin~ Badass Buzz Guru Posted 2012/06/15 13:28:02

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	Yes	6 votes	10%
	No	55 votes	90%

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Pele Emerging 2012/07/15 04:20:30

No

From public libraries? Don't check out what you don't like.

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Reggie☮ 2012/06/16 16:20:05

No

No banning at all, it keeps cutting into you freedom!

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beach bum 2012/06/16 12:10:52

No

no

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Lydecho Rain (Лидия) 2012/06/16 03:55:49

No

We should all be able to read what we want. But some books should be 18 and older

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Beccy 2012/06/16 00:58:03

No

+1
BANNING TAKES AWAY FREEDOM.

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MichaelDillon 2012/06/16 00:55:19

No

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BB 2012/06/16 00:16:00

No

Yes and we should just burn the books we don't like... Give me a break...

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Carol 2012/06/16 00:14:41

No

It's just censorship. You can choose not to check the book out and read it if it offends you.

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Sodaz56 2012/06/15 21:57:38

No

Maybe restricting some books to certaint ages but no banning.

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nverumind 2012/06/15 20:53:57

No

i personally do not want any type of ban on literature or books available to public through libraries, once you allow that where does it end? and who decides?

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Back_woods_boy 2012/06/15 19:48:56

No

Ppl still go to libraries?

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rand 2012/06/15 19:16:04

Yes

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For instance, books that picture sado-masochistic practices and intercourse should be banned from public libraries.

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evangel... to rand 2012/06/15 19:50:51

+1
i agree with you

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BB to rand 2012/06/16 00:15:02

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Why not just have a restricted section?

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rand to BB 2012/06/16 14:53:18

It would add a layer of bureaucratic cost. Those who want perverse photos can buy them.

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BB to rand 2012/06/18 03:23:45

+1
Our society exists because of the free exchange of ideas. If you take that away we are no better then China.

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rand to BB 2012/06/18 15:06:42

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I appreciate your love of free speech and concur, but as with almost all ideologies, exceptions can benefit the whole. I'm a pragmatic utilitarian and believe that 99+% of the population would not want to fund availability of pictures of sadomasochistic sex.

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BB to rand 2012/06/18 22:17:39

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You are probubly right. But I just dont feel right about the idea of censorship. Its a real slippery sloap. For example who gets to decide what gets banned and how do we know they wont eventually abuse the privlidge?

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rand to BB 2012/06/19 14:27:57

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That's a great question. So far, it's been the courts that make these decisions IF and WHEN the issue becomes a contested one. We wouldn't need government if "all men were angels" but I doubt that angels practice sadomasochism.

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Gahnzo 2012/06/15 19:09:31

No

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When you begin to ban books, you begin to go down that slippery slope. Who decides, what is banned, what makes one book acceptable and another un acceptable, these are choices that ought not be made by anyone. Undoubtedly there will certainly be books that people will not like, but that does NOT give someone the right to ban it, or remove it. Libraries are the soul of a country and it's cultures. To diminish the scope and the complexities of a culture or society by banning a book would be to exclude a part of society. And that my friends in my world is unacceptable!

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RastaFan 2012/06/15 18:33:04

Yes

+2
There is always a line drawn in any society over which, things may not cross.

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rand to RastaFan 2012/06/16 14:55:06

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Agreed. Pragmatism must be an ideology unfamiliar to the ideologues who voted "no".

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**StarzAbove** 2012/06/15 18:06:47

No

No.

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Dagon 2012/06/15 18:05:45
Xerxes,Phantom of PHAET 2012/06/15 17:51:15

No

Maybe put a rating like films, cds, and video games

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prosperhappily 2012/06/15 17:28:16

No

You might restrict some to readers 18 and older. But, none should be outright banned.

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Luke 2012/06/15 16:55:51

No

No F'n way......

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BritPunk 2012/06/15 16:45:29

No

+1
Kept for adults only but I never believe i banning books.

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cuzzbuzzla 2012/06/15 16:37:11

No

We don't want to go down that road. Once you start banning books you don't like, the books you do like will be right behind them. It reeks of Nazi Germany.

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Garciataria 2012/06/15 16:36:56

Yes

Unless you want brain damage...

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Soup Man 2012/06/15 16:15:09

No

maybe just who reviews them

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MandaLynne 2012/06/15 15:44:20

No

I don't believe books should be banned, but I do believe that school libraries should only carry age appropriate books and no erotica.

A Partial List of Banned and/or Challenged Books:

Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Ulysses by James Joyce
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1984 by George Orwell
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Native Son by Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
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I don't believe books should be banned, but I do believe that school libraries should only carry age appropriate books and no erotica.

A Partial List of Banned and/or Challenged Books:

Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Ulysses by James Joyce
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
1984 by George Orwell
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by James Joyce
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Native Son by Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The World According to Garp by John Irving
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Howards End by E.M. Forster
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Jazz by Toni Morrison
Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor
Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Orlando by Virginia Woolf
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
White Noise by Don DeLillo
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Bostonians by Henry James
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E.M. Forster
Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
(more)

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dear•LT13☻ 2012/06/15 15:42:09 (edited)

No

+1
You don't HAVE to read it just because it's there.
What are we - China?

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Dave Sawyer ♥ Child of God ♥ 2012/06/15 15:33:17

Yes

Rather, Libraries should only contain books desired by the owners of said libraries.

If it is a Public Library, the public should decided what books are desireable.

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rand to Dave Sa... 2012/06/16 14:58:24

I agree and disagree. Obviously voting book by book would be an exercise in absurdity, but omitting books depicting photos of some behaviors makes all the sense in the world. I would not restrict the written word, however. It was one of Hitler's strategies.

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JohnT 2012/06/15 15:33:16

No

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We have enough nanny government taking place right now.

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evangel... to JohnT 2012/06/15 19:53:30

+1
at least the humanist Manifesto

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JohnT to evangel... 2012/06/15 20:23:34

I doubt in this day and age that a worldwide egalitarian society would work. Not much compromise in this world.

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flrdsgns 2012/06/15 15:31:46

No

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I'm all for free speech. So no, I don't want someone deciding what I should say or read.

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die Küss der Tod 2012/06/15 15:27:09

No

If you ban a book, that only makes people want to read it more and I don't see what the problem is in letting people read a book. People are supposed to have freedom of speech and banning books goes against that and is ludicrous. Books don't pose a threat--people who believe every little thing you tell them without thinking for themselves pose a threat.

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