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I was reading a recent article about the efforts by people not to ban books. While I think the sentiment is good-natured, as a helper at my local library, this is actually very problematic. People donate to us all the time, as is how libraries work. Sometimes the books are unpopular, unproductive, harmful, or just low tier.

I would never apply this logic to human beings, all humans have value if the system knows how to channel them correctly, but books are inanimate objects where their expected purpose is to be read (if you were to say a book is useful on the basis it could be used for something like ripping the pages out for wiping a floor for example, that would make its usefulness as a book cease). Often we are over capacity from the donations, so once a year we have a book sale at the church (libraries and churches getting along? Crazy, right?), but even then, a lot just isn't sold, and we're forced to either give them to another holding place or, in the worst case scenario, cremate or trash them. I am all for free speech, but freedom to produce speech is different from freedom to preserve speech, and I'm sure even the ancient Romans produced a lot of scribbly nonsense.

Suppose you were in my shoes and the library could preserve anything forever but not everything forever. What criteria would you use in order to decide what media (books, movies, games, etc.) gets to stay and what has to go?

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I heard about this because someone I know personally on here says she's helping to work on this (which by the way sounds like it would perfectly fit the format/structure of the fediverse) and I felt too fascinated to not ask. What are some scenarios that comes to mind when you think of this being a thing?

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

So like merged into your mother then? How does/would that work?

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[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

So like Penny Proud but turquoise (and without the odangos, which I can see is persona-based)? What about the other stuff?

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[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Unless I misunderstand, the last one seems pretty normal. So you just happen to only default on one normal thing? Also, sorry for confusing things earlier and leading to this weird convo path.

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

You were an exchange student? I've always wanted to be one of those. Any horror stories when abroad, like realizing you had to know more languages, finding a host, getting stuck...?

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[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

What if one isn't possible? Which of the two would you choose?

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Adding this because I consider it interesting, one interesting response I've been told by this person is to treat it like copyright, which she says is the view she holds. That is, something like a name or identifying code number thing or whatnot should not be shared because it's an extension of the individual and therefore would fall under copyright infringement.

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Eccentric meaning the example that would be considered the most foolish or far out. I didn't know a better synonym if the word eccentric doesn't work. Most skeptics would understand the use of the word eccentric, but to give an example, the other day I met a little kid who couldn't understand why the moon is invisible during its full moon stages and why it looks like a cloud, and the little kid said she thought the moon was just a cloud which has turned into rain during the new moon, only to evaporate again. But of course, this is a little kid, so in this case it's not unnatural.

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

What was offensive? What did they say?

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

What was their belief? Asking as their comment says it was removed.

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

What did the comment say?

[-] CraigOhMyEggo@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Is that a quote or your definition?

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