Peder
Well-Known Member
Just to be on the divergent side of the discussion again, I can't help reporting that I stopped by my favorite book-store yesterday and happened to glance at one of their New Arrivals. The Ice Man. The excerpt on the back cover staggered even me, generally quite liberal in such matters as I am. IMO it conveys such an unredeeming and irredeemably ugly, horrible thought that I refuse to even present it here for information purposes. In its own way I think it is as unredeeming as pornography and quite possibly worse.
But if you happen to be near a bookstore and want to calibrate your dials as to what should be freely available for people of tender years to read, then you might take a look at the back cover of The Ice Man. It may not change your mind about anything, least of all freedom of the press or freedom of expression, but I think it may make you gulp a little at what is freely available in print these days. It might also lend a little greater sympathy to why parents express their concerns.
Peder
Not Easily Horrified
But if you happen to be near a bookstore and want to calibrate your dials as to what should be freely available for people of tender years to read, then you might take a look at the back cover of The Ice Man. It may not change your mind about anything, least of all freedom of the press or freedom of expression, but I think it may make you gulp a little at what is freely available in print these days. It might also lend a little greater sympathy to why parents express their concerns.
Peder
Not Easily Horrified