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12535187 No.12535187 [Reply] [Original]

What do you do when you start a book supposedly to learn something, but you can't agree on a single thing the author says, and you just can't feel like finishing it? Do you force yourself to read it just to see if there's something to learn from it or what?

Some anon on /tv/ tricked me to read ''Loving Boys'', by Edward Brongersma, to see if I could find accounts on sexual abuse on a minor and to learn more of it's long term effects on someone. However, the book is basically advocating for paedophilia — specially homosexual paedophilia— and as of now, most of the guy's arguments is ''Sex feels good and the greeks used to do it a lot, here's those dubious studies to prove kids need it''.

I really hate to drop books because I already invested my time to read some pages of it, but I really see no use of my time in this. I can't also seem to find any reviews of critics of it to sum it up and see if there's anything salvageable, so it worsens the case.

>> No.12535221

I treat it like I'm having a debate and annotate my side of the argument in the margins. It's a good opportunity to refine your views on something you otherwise wouldn't. If a book is trash, it's trash, and you can disregard it, but if it's a good book that you disagree with then you should put in the effort to finish it.

>> No.12535254

>>12535221
His arguments are weak, most are done the same way with a faulty sense of common-sense. I can't tell if this is a ''good book'' at all. I just feel like there's nothing I can get from this.

>> No.12535304

>>12535187
I'd give it up. There really doesn't seem to be any purpose in reading it. If it hasn't offered any convincing arguments at this point and you find yourself unwilling to read further, it's not a good text.

>> No.12535379
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12535379

>Enlightenment-"tradition" intellectual author derives oughts from ises

straight to the guillotine

>> No.12535469

If you want a good pro-paedophilia book, you should read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paedophilia%3A_The_Radical_Case

it's pretty well argued. most of the counter-arguments on the wikipedia page are pretty weak to what he presents in the book.

>> No.12535492

>>12535254
Well if you understand his arguments, and still find them wanting, then nothing that comes after built on those arguments will be worth going through. I haven't read the book, so I couldn't say for sure whether it's worth continuing, but if you're reading it and going "fuck, dude, you're not even trying" then I won't fault you for considering it 'read'.

>> No.12535828

>>12535187

Homosexuals reproduce by raping kids.

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12535866

>>12535187
zoophilia is a superior paraphilia, fuck PETA

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=88388530A2B33DCF8798B1A2711D8AD2

>> No.12536019

>>12535469
That's exactly the opposite of what I think. I'm completely agaisnt paedophilia, specially homosexual paedophilia. I'm arguing if it's worth reading a bullshit book just because you already started it, since the Author, being so well-versed, gives me the illusion that ''he'll blow my mind soon enough, I just have to keep reading''. But I know it won't happen, because he's arguing has been shit.
>>12535828
Agreed. The pro-paedo faggot even reinforces this, attempting to sugarcoat it into ''but some of them LIKED being introduced to sex at a very young age''.
>>12535866
Mentally ill.
>>12535492
Thanks, that's reasonable.