Matthew Fishburn
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Although he stops short of labeling Nazi book burnings as something that from some perspectives can be a good thing, he lets us know that at the time many commentators did not see the harm, and even saw a bit of the good. I confess confess this set uncomfortably with me, since I see book burning as categorically a bad thing, with no redeeming value. Sure, even this stance has to be nuanced, suggesting that the moral significance of the burning or disposal depends on the intent: if the goal is to make the contents inaccessible, or even just to signal its unacceptability, then it is bad; if it is to dispose of extra copies or outmoded, superseded volumes, it is not.… (meer)