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Which is more offensive: book burning or flag burning?

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ArishMell · 70-79, M
Burning books.

Burning a flag is a deliberate insult to a nation or its ideology.

Burning books represents suppressing or destroying culture, ideas and knowledge.

Even without such pure vandalism, simply denying people access to books on ideological grounds, e.g. by preventing libraries and book-shops offering any not "approved" by the censors, is little better.
WateryLasagna · 56-60, M
@ArishMell
I like burning flags of countries that don't exist

I gave up on burning flags of countries that don't exist anymore
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@WateryLasagna How can a non-existent country have a flag?

If a country that did exist has been destroyed, it would be more important to know who destroyed it and why, than to make futile gestures like burning its national symbols.
WateryLasagna · 56-60, M
@ArishMell
I once destroyed a whole galaxy
past life you know