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1. sim@shitposter.club's status on Friday, 19-May-2023 19:17:04 JST sim
   The problem with censoring books from other eras or cultures for not conforming to modern sensibilities is that we are destroying what people like this profess to believe in, which is diversity.
   
   We have to allow ourselves to be offended by the opinions of other people, we have to be able to acknowledge that people in the past or in different cultures had different values and priorities, they had different sensibilities. This is how we grow as people.
   
   People in the past can no longer grow because their time has been and gone. But through their works and opinions, we can grow. We can pass our wisdom from this on to future generations, who can hopefully take those lessons and grow further. If we censor them, we cannot grow. We just assume that things have always been the way we think them to be now. We stagnate instead. All curiosity, all creativity, all wisdom... it dies for modern sensibilities and censorship.
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   • ☑⚡thurisaz⚡ (toiletpaper@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 19-May-2023 20:02:16 JST ☑⚡thurisaz⚡

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     not only that, but wisdom comes from failure and tragedy. if you erase the memory of failure and tragedy, the wisdom is lost along with it.
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