Book burning is a crime against humanity [View all]

[Cyrano]

If I were religious, I'd call it a major sin. But, along with physical crimes such as murder, torture, etc., I believe that book burning ranks among the worst crimes that human beings can commit. Book burners are committed to destroying human knowledge, progress and freedom.

Books are an indifferent vehicle that have passed along everything that humans know and have learned from generation, to generation, to generation. Books are a kind of "time machine" that, in their own way, defeat death. Books store and carry all the information, facts and wisdom that have brought about progress and taken our species from mud huts to the moon.

So what is the goal of the book burners? To wipe out history and replace it. To establish an uneducated population. To secure their own power over unlearned people. To become a "God" over all. To destroy individualism and free will.

Let me say this again. Book burning is a crime against humanity. And anyone who wants to burn books must be shunned and exiled to whatever cave they crawled out of.