NJ5 said:
1- Really? Give me the name of a well-regarded modern European politician who tried to ban books. 2- I believe killing a fetus is no problem as long as it happens before it's self aware (self-awareness requires a formed brain, a lump of cells is not self-aware without a brain).
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1- Books? Couldn't say, but i can tell you censorship is worse in the UK by just looking at the videogames threatening banning in Europe.
Although i'd say the The Racial and Religious Hatred Act crosses the line a bit if it came to books.
Along with it being illegal to publish leaked documents from individual members of the government.
In Germany it would be illegal to publish a holocaust denial book. As ignorant as it is... you could publish a holocaust denial book in the US.
Aside from which... any "book banning" legislature would have to go through the congress... and if it passed it'd be instantly struck down by the Supreme Court for violating the first ammendment.
So if they wanted to ban any book they'd have to pass it through congress, senate, and get a 2/3rds majority of the states to agree to it. Not too likely.
2- Yeah, i agree. Though calling someone calling someone insane for having the opposite feeling seems a bit much since abortion really doesn't seem like a cut and dry issue. To me the people in the middle are the insane ones, since they see








