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Re:The American prison system’s war on reading by didibus on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @08:49PM (#29399729)
> If significant numbers of people die that wouldn't die if books were restricted, that's at least an argument for a ban

The same argument is made for guns, and that hasn't gone very well to convince anyone.

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Re:The American prison system’s war on reading by ravi-delia on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @09:17PM (#29399905)
It is an argument though, rather than blind word association. However bad these freedom restricting arguments are, the kind of moral panic the commenter I replied to implied the commenter they replied to felt.
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