Good ol' fashioned book burnin'

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 04:10 PM 3/26/01 -0800, you wrote:
>http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20010326/ts/book_burning010326_1.html
>
>Potter Tossed in Fire at Pa. Church
>By ABCNEWS.com
>When members of a suburban Pittsburgh church wanted to
>purge their lives of things they felt were against
>their faith, Harry Potter books, Disney videos and
>Pearl Jam CDs found their way into the fire.

Is book burning in the same moral category as, say, TV-smashing or outdoor
ad defacing?  If it is, why is the former seen as more reprehensible than
the latter?  If it is not, what is the difference?

wojtek