Imagine me shock when I realized nothing from the Anarchist's Cookbook actually tasted good....
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Books That Should Be Banned In Schools
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How about common sense and letting parents, teachers, PTAs, and trained librarians decide what is age appropriate for the kids?
If the kid wants a book that isn't in the library, or the parents decide it's time to teach the yard ape how to make a bomb, it's up to the kid to ask the parents, and the parents to do the teaching.
Common sense can work really well if we let it. There are few truly dangerous ideas. There is, however, a whole boatload of truly dangerous ignorance.
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If the kid wants a book that isn't in the library, or the parents decide it's time to teach the yard ape how to make a bomb, it's up to the kid to ask the parents, and the parents to do the teaching.
Common sense can work really well if we let it. There are few truly dangerous ideas. There is, however, a whole boatload of truly dangerous ignorance.
Pangloss
OMG I still have those books. lmao...
Can you imagin a book in the kids library now.Fun with Dick and Jane!!!!
Agreed, as long as it's *my* common sense that decides. :smile:
Common sense isn't really very common, mostly because we don't seem able to agree on what it is. To some people it's common sense that the theory of evolution can't possibly be correct, there's obviously an intelligent designer at work. To some people it's obvious common sense that the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States had to be an inside job. I think it's common sense that both those positions--and I could probably generate hundreds more examples with a little thought--are simply stupid. On any issue you can find people whose ideas of what the common sense response is are diametrically opposed.
So whose idea of common sense should prevail? We're back where we started from.