How is one a "drag" on society if one still reads Harry Potter? To be a drag on society, you'd have to be doing something really horrible or completely useless, like be addicted to drugs or WoW (sorry it's true, my brother and his friends play it and can't do anything else). Reading a book, albeit a children's book, hardly counts as "dragging" society down because well, how many people still read books these days, YOU? And then let's consider the ones who read Harry Potter and then read books like Critique of Pure Reason, Darwin, 1984, On the Genealogy of Morality; should we condemn them and say that they are "drags" on society because the last time I checked, it was scholars who read these books in addition to Harry Potter. Reading one type of book sometimes means that you read other types of books as well. Think about it. Drags on society are people who sit all day doing nothing to edify themselves or others, and one could easily say that about a lot of Bastardly fans, but I digress.
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How is one a "drag" on society if one still reads Harry Potter? To be a drag on society, you'd have to be doing something really horrible or completely useless, like be addicted to drugs or WoW (sorry it's true, my brother and his friends play it and can't do anything else). Reading a book, albeit a children's book, hardly counts as "dragging" society down because well, how many people still read books these days, YOU? And then let's consider the ones who read Harry Potter and then read books like Critique of Pure Reason, Darwin, 1984, On the Genealogy of Morality; should we condemn them and say that they are "drags" on society because the last time I checked, it was scholars who read these books in addition to Harry Potter. Reading one type of book sometimes means that you read other types of books as well. Think about it. Drags on society are people who sit all day doing nothing to edify themselves or others, and one could easily say that about a lot of Bastardly fans, but I digress.
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