Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need sight.
The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.
When you publish a book, you do so in part to end the silence. All censorship is silence. I would never, as an author, feel right requiring a young person whose family would object to the book to read it. Just as I would never force that person to read it, I would ask those folks to not force others not to read it. To me, that is just good manners.
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