Those two books caused revolutions, eh? It wasn't power-tripping egomaniacs who had other influences in their lives?
You know how the saying goes "the pen is mightier than the sword?" Well an IDEA is mightier than the pen.
As far as the 10 books go, I can see how they spawned harmful ideas that led to bad things, although a few of them had *some* good parts also.
#7 I'm really not sure about.
As far as the 10 books go, I can see how they spawned harmful ideas that led to bad things, although a few of them had *some* good parts also.
#7 I'm really not sure about.
Equating Kinsey with Hitler is beyond assinine. Kinsey merely said what was happening while American prudishness denied and repressed it. Hitler sowed the seeds of genocide in that book of his.
Check out the movie "Kinsey." It's great. He didn't make a discovery like the guys who found DNA, he merely had the stones to ask the right questions first.
Check out the movie "Kinsey." It's great. He didn't make a discovery like the guys who found DNA, he merely had the stones to ask the right questions first.
There are a lot of potential book burners and banners here... pretty sad. Again, I'm guessing a lot of these people hold the "guns don't kill people" argument but have some sort of perverse double-standard for books.
Ugh. Leave it to you to imply that making a value-judgement on a book is a "gateway thought" to banning and burning :roll: :roll: :roll:
BTW, is that like saying a Liberal is the larval stage of a socialist?
Ooooooooooooooh, I was so confused for a bit
I was so shocked at his apparent racism towards koreans
Originally posted by: cwjerome
Ugh. Leave it to you to imply that making a value-judgement on a book is a "gateway thought" to banning and burning :roll: :roll: :roll:
BTW, is that like saying a Liberal is the larval stage of a socialist?
If you truly think books are dangerous, than you have a reason to burn or ban a book. If you are a liberal, that is not a reason to become a socialist. Nice try though.
You mean, kinda like the Principia Mathematica led to the ability to build mechanized war machines which led to said millions of deaths? There have always been tyrants, what made stalin and hitler worse was their ability to kill so much.
Damn that evil Newton!
Why didn't "The Contract with America" make the list? It seems pretty dangerous in my eyes. Was able to fool millions into thinking that a power-hungry group was really looking out for their best interests to gain control of their government and make changes that are slowly destroying the fabric of their great country.
yeah... I read that, nr 5 definetly should not be on the list
and if the guys who made the list might read what secular humanism is they might not disagree, but that required research so I guess that was something that was too hard
http://www.secularhumanism.org/intro/what.html
I think over 50% of the people on AT could classify them as seccular humainists
hell nr8 should again, not belong on any list like that ... or 7 or 9
ok wtf is wrong with these people??
ok wtf is wrong with these people??
I wouldn't call the first three crazy choices, but putting Kinsey at #4 is crazy as is The Feminine Mystique at #7. Looking past their top 10, we see John Stuart Mill's On Liberty, a couple of Darwin's books, and a number of other crazy choices too.
Originally posted by: cwjerome
Ugh. Leave it to you to imply that making a value-judgement on a book is a "gateway thought" to banning and burning :roll: :roll: :roll:
BTW, is that like saying a Liberal is the larval stage of a socialist?
The liberal is the larval stage of the conservative.
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