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I actually agree with you. A person having knowledge is not a crime.

@jimfinley11 : This crime, and violent crime in general, is evil. However, the Paladin blurb you quoted didn't say, "You have the right to make a truck bomb." It said, "You have the right to KNOW HOW TO make a truck bomb." If you're a journalist, you know better than to treat them as the same. Making a truck bomb is a crime; knowing how is not, otherwise countless law enforcement officers, veterans, mining engineers, chemists, and others would be criminals because of what they know. These murderers and any others who kill people using information from any book should be convicted of premeditated murder, because referring to the book is enough to show the crimes are planned. But having a book can't be a crime unless it contains classified information, no matter what book it is. You could make a similar case for banning the novel The Day of the Jackal, which reads like a how-to manual on how to carry out a political assassination. A lot of other books and films are the equivalent. Again, I think this book, its author, and Paladin are/were evil, sick, and amoral. But there's no law against being evil, sick, and amoral.

3 years ago

jimfinley11

This crime, and violent crime in general, is evil. However, the Paladin blurb you quoted didn't say, "You have the right to make a truck bomb." It said, "You have the right to KNOW HOW TO make a truck bomb." If you're a journalist, you know better than to treat them as the same. Making a truck bomb is a crime; knowing how is not, otherwise countless law enforcement officers, veterans, mining engineers, chemists, and others would be criminals because of what they know. These murderers and any others who kill people using information from any book should be convicted of premeditated murder, because referring to the book is enough to show the crimes are planned. But having a book can't be a crime unless it contains classified information, no matter what book it is. You could make a similar case for banning the novel The Day of the Jackal, which reads like a how-to manual on how to carry out a political assassination. A lot of other books and films are the equivalent. Again, I think this book, its author, and Paladin are/were evil, sick, and amoral. But there's no law against being evil, sick, and amoral.

"This Sh*t Can't Be Protected"

5 years ago