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Denmark passes law to ban Quran burnings (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[โ€“] Zacryon@feddit.de 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
  1. It is bad for the environment. Too much co2 production in the process. If you must destroy books, recycle them!

The CO2 produced by this is extremely marginal. Some single occasions of this won't have significant impact. Despite that: books tend to rot after a while, thereby releasing the stored CO2 anyway.

  1. The Nazis did this very popularly. I always get reminded of that, when people burn books.

The Christians also burned books on multiple occasions. As did the communist revolution under Mao Zedong and a bunch of other lunatics throughout history. If we should agree that burning books (as a form of protest) is a bad thing, then include all books and not just some religious ones.

I agree with your third point. However, it's a very visual and "spectacular" (meaning it draws attention) way of protest.

  1. I think most countries ban burning houses, even if it is infringing the freedom of speech. Why should it be different with books?

Burning houses does significantly more damage and poses high risks of further collateral damage than burning a book. Moreover, houses usually don't carry and spread ideologic views.