You are stepping down an insanely dangerous path a little more rashly than I'm able to see as the long term best interest of maintaining a free society.

I certainly share your feelings on the plausible ramifications of these stupid, knuckle dragging, hateful, and bigoted actions fully but my fear of the slip slide logic that the burning of an ordinary book not in an effort to annihilate the text from the world in a literal sense but to make a symbolic statement rises to any logically accepted level of incitement under our system of law or ethics.

It is no different than making a defiant statement of burning any other article in this longstanding method of protest.

Free speech in this model becomes a hostage to the determination to throw a tantrum and I'd fight it with the same determination or more than any terrorist.

A free society comes with risks and I warn you that this line of thinking is well within eyeshot of denying for example the civil rights movement as it may tend to offend certain folks to have marches and speeches around their parts and might react rather poorly.

There is no there there. There is no justification or reasonable explanation for much of any concern about burning a book beyond fire code.

Burning a cross in someone's yard isn't criminal because it is a cross but because it is in their yard and a direct and present act of intimidation to a particular victim. If the Klan had used a square, an ankh, a fish, star or whatever instead of the cross that would be a hate crime too.

The entire concept of our law is twisting in folks mind in an effort to avoid the downside of free expression and sell what many have been disenfranchised from and others sacrificed and died to establish and preserve because there is always the chance that someone will handle offense poorly and lash out.

The path to Hell is paved with good intentions man. Conflict aversion cannot be the number one goal of existence. What will be next? What else of our birthright will we exchange for the hope that no one will be too upset? Where the hell is the end of the line?

The price of peace at any cost is too high for me.