What do you think about the burning of books and flags?

[EvilCat Breath]

Muslims burned the oldest library in the world to the ground and every book in it turned to ash.

No one would dare complain.

 

[Zebra]

You may perhaps not like this book or that flag.
But to burn it publicly as a demonstration I find overdoing things.

One can express one's criticism in other ways

 

[Zebra]

@ the burning of the library of Alexandria

Despite the widespread modern belief that the Library of Alexandria was burned once and cataclysmically destroyed, the Library actually declined gradually over the course of several centuries.

Library of Alexandria - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Zebra]

Muslims burned the oldest library in the world to the ground and every book in it turned to ash.

Where and when was that?

 

[Bleipriester]

What do you think about the burning of books and flags?

I oppose it in general. No ridiculous censorship, no silly flag burning (unless you have legit reasons).

 

[Bleipriester]

Where and when was that?

Maybe in Iraq.

 

[westwall]

Where and when was that?

The Library of Alexandria.

 

[whitehall]

They burn cities don't they? Crazy liberals want to boycott CMT and country singer Jason Aldean over a country music song.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

some time ago a legless vet in wheelchair came before congress during one of their 'flag burning' debates insisting he looked like he did so folks would have the FREEDOM to burn the flag

~S~

Before They Could Stab Us in the Back, They Had to Take Away Our Backbone

 

[LuckyDuck]

What do you think about the burning of books and flags?

The Supreme Court long ago, ruled that the burning of flags was a form of protected speech, thus so too would be the burning of books. However, it would be nice if an Amendment were enacted to protect our flag.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

The Library of Alexandria.

The Way of the World Is the Ruling Class's "My Way or the Highway"

Christofascists burned it before that. Many great works were lost forever. It is a simplistic and biased judgment to believe that only the best ideas survived from the Classical Era. This free-market type thinking doesn't reflect reality. The Invisible Hand is the one lighting a torch.

For example, all of Aristotle's original works disappeared (except for the brilliant Constitution of Athens, which wasn't discovered until the 19th Century, the only one of the 50 treatises on local governments he wrote). What passes for Aristotle today is the textbooks used in his Lyceum.

 

[sparky]

Before They Could Stab Us in the Back, They Had to Take Away Our Backbone

i could not have said it better Sage...

The Supreme Court long ago, ruled that the burning of flags was a form of protected speech, thus so too would be the burning of books. However, it would be nice if an Amendment were enacted to protect our flag.

I'll meet you 1/2 way Lucky,

The flag is a symbol , protecting what it stands for should rate far more than (as George Carlin said) the symbol minded.......~S~