it’s just the rule thing to do

please don’t start shit in the comments, i’m too disabled to care

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Hey I want y'all to know that I'm locking this, but:

I agree with OP. Burning Harry Potter books doesn't hurt anyone. No one here would give a shit if it was burning a copy of some horrid book. And Harry Potter isn't going to be out of print any time soon.

When Nazis did it, it was a complete removal of the only copies of a queer library in Germany. OP can't do that to Harry Potter.

I'm only locking this to save the mod team and the admins the headache. I can only expect transphobia, ableism, and "but that nazis also burned books!!! youre as bad as the nazis!!!!".
I do not like the cunt but destroying books is a line even I won't cross. Just don't feed into the wizarding world anymore. Move on.
- i felt differently about my personal childhood copies after coming out as a trans woman ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it’s not like i went to the shop and bought a new set just to burn like a republican would have
- The tone just got very fast very hostile in this Instance. And I don't like that at all.
It's always funny when views wrap around to completely opposed groups.

Those who are adamantly against J.K. Rowling for her TERF views might be about burning her books. Fundamentalists that think magic is not only real, but inherently evil would also be about burning the books.
- “hurrrr durrrr both sides are bad ackshually”
  
  this is you, this is what you sound like.
  
  I mean I don’t think that’s at all what they were doing and tbh that was pretty rude. They just thought it was funny how something managed to offend two completely opposed groups for completely different reasons.
  
  I gotta say, burnings books is a pretty bad look, no matter what the book is.
  
  Plenty people love Harry Potter in spite of Joanne's really unfortunate views, and by burning this book rather than putting it back in circulation second-hand through Half Price Books or something, you're encouraging the publisher to print more books and make Joanne more money
  
  Nah, it's much closer to Nietzsche's "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process they do not become monsters."
  
  Ah, yes. The good old "Argumentum ad hominem". Or in this case more like "I can't refute you, so you are a nerdy caveman."-Argument.
  
  Very mature and not low quality argumentation at all. /s
This Instance just got really hostile reaaaaaaaaaaally fast. I don't like this vibe at all ._.
- Coming from somebody on the instance that defederated the piracy communities just because someone put a post up saying “piracy is illegal and bad” 😂😂😂
  
  Yes and now that is clear there is no legal threat they are back. So what was your point?
Yeah, shit books for simpletons. And that's before we get into any of the political shit.

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