Appreciate the nuanced response, but as far as I can tell, “vindictive” is just a synonym for “vengeful”.

Literally, it’s in the definition:

https://www.wordnik.com/words/vindictive

https://www.wordnik.com/words/vengeful

Vindictive

Why are women like that?

Did you actually read these articles, or are you just trying to stoke a panic?

The first one explicitly says that “no librarian or educator has been jailed” (as of April 9 last year), while the second details an apparently extremely far right LEO in friggin’ TEXAS (which I assume is likely on the forefront of these efforts) spending a whole TWO YEARS gathering evidence to indict a couple of small town librarians for making these books available, with nothing to show for it (because the county judge declined to even hear the case).

So if Texas can’t even indict anyone for these “crimes”, what makes you think that Indiana will?

You forgot

火车 (fire car) = train

手机 (hand machine) = cellphone

First of all, the kids in this comic are clearly not teenagers, so you need to decide whether or not you’re talking about the comic since you were one post ago.

It’s kinda hard to tell tbh because not all kids reach their growth spurts at the same time, I’m just assuming that based on his interest in 1984, which contains rather mature themes that require a certain level of mental development to even appreciate. If these are preteens, I would question how they even heard about the book why they’d be interested in it, or whether they aren’t just being used as pawns by an adult trying to make a political statement.

Secondly, you have not even acknowledged that these book banning laws will end up imprisoning librarians. It’s all about how kids, if they are somehow magically aware of it, can bypass libraries to read certain specific books that are banned.

You said yourself that this law you mentioned is still under consideration, so everything concerning that is basically speculation until it has actually been passed.

Cool, now how do they get access to Gender Queer or The Bluest Eye? Because those are banned too and will also put librarians in prison and they are not in the public domain. How about And Tango Makes Three, the often-banned picture book for children, which is a true story about two male penguins in a zoo that adopted a baby chick. A librarian letting a kid have access to a book about penguins could end up in prison for it.

Because as it is, you seem to be implying that the only banned book of any significance is 1984 and if librarians get imprisoned for letting someone under 18 read it, good.

Well, all I’ll say is that there’s a reason the artist chose 1984 and not one of those other books (even though the one about penguins would probably have made an even better contrast to watching animal cruelty videos).

Probably at work I’d assume. Were you never a teenager?

I mean, it’s literally the premise of this comic that the kid goes to a library that has already banned the book. How does he know it exists at all? And if he thinks he ought to be able to get it at the library, why wouldn’t he think of trying to find it on the Internet instead?

Kids these days were literally born after the iPhone was invented, they have never even known a time where you couldn’t access the Internet from almost anywhere in the world using a device small enough to fit in your pocket, and somehow you think they’d be too stupid to even try?

On the contrary, I’d say that’s an instructive example demonstrating why the book continues to be relevant over 75 years after its release.

Also, if anything, banning it would likely only serve to increase interest in it since the best way to get a rebellious teenager to do anything is to tell them they aren’t allowed to do it.

I understand, but my point is that it really doesn’t take any more effort or dedication than going to the library does. In fact, it’s certainly no more difficult than looking up videos of animal cruelty (at least I don’t exactly just see them being suggested to me randomly).

There are several links to free, legal copies at the bottom of the book’s Wikipedia page.

Also, if you type “1984” into YouTube, the first result is this full audiobook recording. It’s really not difficult to find.

You know the book is old enough to be in the public domain nowadays, and you can legally download a copy of it using the same device they use for watching those videos, right?

Yup, basically their entire business revolves around making 2 games: Far Cry and Assassin’s Creed. And they keep remaking them over and over and over again ad nauseam, until even the most hardcore fans of the series are tired and bored.

Could it be that economics is more of a social science than a physical one, and therefore its “laws” cannot be expected to have the same level of stringency and consistency as the laws of physics?

No, it’s economics that’s wrong.