How far off is thumbing down books you haven't read from burning them?

I don't care if a lone moron burns books as long as he's only burning *his* books that he paid for.

Thumbing down answers--as you should know by now--frequently has nothing to do with the actual answer. More likely, the thumbs-down fairy doesn't like the Question, the Asker, the Answerer, or the Avatar/Screen name of either the Asker or Answerer. Someone indiscriminately thumbing down all answers probably has some kind of bizarre fixation on the question's Asker.

I have a right to state that I didn't like a book. If a book promotes what I believe to be harmful, disgraceful or deceptive, I have an ethical obligation to attempt to steer people away from it. However, I do not have the right to demand that book be outlawed or burned.

I don't care if you burn your books, but don't burn someone else's books. A book purchased is the property of the one who purchased it, and can be dealt with in anyway within the law. Burning a book is not a crime, even if you disagree with it.

What I believe should be a crime is stealing, burning or punishing someone else for having a book you disagree with.

I see what you are trying to do here. The life story of Daryl Strawberry may be very interesting. But, I can't see why it would belong in a book about the New York Yankees. Long story short, there was no evidence to support the those books that the fake Jews and the Catholics added to the real testimony belonged to what was written by the prophets.

Why is burning books a bad thing? Assuming you purchased them the author still got payed and it's not like they can't print more. So I think burning a copy would actually be better than just thumbing it down.

I'm guessing this person rejects all books that are not the Bible or the Koran.

Now there are a couple of thumbs down on several of the books. Wow, some people are just bastards!

Pretty far off. Burning a book is completely obliterating, whereas a thumbs down is a sign of disapproval with no action taken.

Thumbs down are like any other flotsam and jetsam of the distractions of existence.

Just ignore them. :o)

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To be fair, I did do a "doorstop review" on a book once:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2L7DY4DU5IFD2/ref=cm...

That rating actually helped this printing of the book, because the five-star rating is counted separately from the parody review.

Everybody has a right to their own opinion. Even if books are burned today, someone will have a copy they can send via Kindle. Don't sweat the small shiit.

To be perfectly honest, I thumbed you down because YOLO b*tch.

And also siting C.S Lewis (Or in your case something that convinced him of a god) is like siting Kent Ham as a good source for learning biology...

It's like reading book reviews on amazon and some one will slander the book and then say they haven't actually read it....