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Jason-Why is the United States banning books to make people happy but still at war with other countries? Does that make them happy? To watch people die.

Judie- I think that they they don't know how to stop the war thing. In my point of view, the people in that society only cares about themselves, they don't care what happens to other people. As long as they aren't the ones dying, everything is okay. If they're technology is so good, they should be smart, and smart people can find other ways to stop the conflicts, why didn't they stop and think of another way to solve the book problem?

yuki-I agree with Judie. People in that society doesn't care so much if other people die in war. However, they don't want the books that they don't like to be read by people.

Jason- I don't agree that the people are smart, only some are, for example, the professor, but there aren't a lot of these people anymore and they are scared of fighting the government. Also, the people probably just rely on machines that were made in the past to make the wall-tvs and the people who invented the machines died which means that no one is smart enough to realize how cruel and selfish they are compared to the rest of the world. You might think that the people who invented the machines passed some knowledge to their children but I think the people are too dumb and too lazy to even learn. I believe that the people only know how to operate the machines but don't know how they even work. Another possibility would be that these people are too technical but have no common sense at all, all the philosophers have been excluded from the community. PS. You guys have to ask questions too or else i won't have credit for the response.

Navarre- Maybe because the united states doesn't really realise that the wars they get into affect their reputaion. It is kinda like China in like...ummm.... late 1980's. When they controlled the media and made their self image seem horrible to every1 else, but they thought highly of them selves. When the communists were bad people, wait a second...they still are!

You guys have to ask questions!!!!!!!!

Jason-Another answer for Judie's question is maybe that at that time everyone was too lazy to read books and when the wall-tv's came out they were all addicted to the tv and wasn't caring about the books. It was later on that they realized that the tvs cannot replace the books because they don't give us the same content and that tvs don't have quality.

Yuki- I guess they don't really read books and they are more interested in electronic stuff. And since more and more electronic things are coming out, they get farther and farther away from books. Some people don't even think that books are that importnat and is very useful.

Yuki- Do you think Beatty really wanted to die or not?

judie- I think he didn't want to die because he likes the society the way it is.

judie- What do you think about the ending? What does the last paragraph mean?

Jason-the ending was really ambigous and i think that it meant that they are gonna rebuild the society and start a whole new civilization

jason- Is the wealthy nation that Montag and the other people living in called the United States of America or is it called something else?