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Hot take: its okay to burn certain books. Not everything someone says becomes sacred just because its written down. If we irretrievably lost all knowledge of how to make bioweapons, for example, the world would be better off.
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Anonymous 19w

Religious books

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Anonymous 19w

The problem is that you can never just burn *some* books. Once a government or society decides it’s okay to ban dangerous books, they quickly start labeling more and more books as dangerous.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 19w

Even then, I don’t entirely agree with this take. Say we burned all knowledge of how to make bioweapons. Then, a government figures out how to make it again in the future and starts using it indiscriminately. How will we know how to combat the bioweapon or dispose of bioweapons we capture from them if we burned all our knowledge of bioweapons?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 19w

We could retain knowledge of vaccination, detection and quarantine strategies without needing to retain knowledge of making the bioweapon

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