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Originally Posted by radishes  And again, do you believe in putting warning on everything one group of people believes is bad or wrong? Because if you did that than it wouldn't be a hot minute before Jame Dobson and cronies crap themselves with joy over putting warnings on AP books. Or warnings on Gay and Lesbian literature: Warning, reading this may turn you and your loved ones homosexual. And yeah, they would find some expert to back them up. I'm not big on experts of any kind. Anyone can be paid to say anything. Of course, you don't seem interested in debating the merits of warning people, you just want to point out how bad CIO, which EVERYONE on here already agrees with you on.
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This was not addressed to me, but I will address it. I think some warnings are very beneficial. "Smoking causes death" is not going to get a chain smoker to instantly quit, but it will occasionally put a thought about considering quitting in their heads. That, along with lack of tv advertising how great marlboros taste....
Here is something closer to home. Formula. Here in Denmark, all formula is marked. Even the name is not formula - modermælkserstatning - literal translation "mothers milk replacement." And the box has a warning: "give to babies that can't be breast fed. Always talk with your doctor or nurse before using this product. The danish health department recommends only breast feeding for the first six months, and continued breast feeding for a year or longer...." and so on. ON every single box, carton, bottle of formula. The warning does not say you can not use it, or that it is bad or evil. But it also doesn't say it is for babies that you don't want to breast feed ... it assumes that you CAN and should breast feed, and that this other milk product is a substitute for the real thing.
Some warnings do work, and are beneficial. Now, a book is not the same as cigarettes or formula. Parenting books are opinion pieces. Often they are made to look like fact with poofed up, twisted statistics, but they aren't. They are "guidelines" "opinions" and "always ask your doctor blah blah blah...." all of them have a disclaimer. I don't think it is rational to have a warning about an opinion. You want to write a book about under water basket weaving, or how to make a bomb, or baby wise, or co-sleeping.... be my guest. I have a brain. I can chose whether to buy it or not. I might feel bad for a sleep deprived new mom who picks up a CIO book, but I should not be able to censor her option to do so. If I could, then someone could turn around and censor my book, feeling sorry for me, because I was a sleep deprived new mom picking up a book about AP.
I went to the manager, showed her, and she removed it, but if she hadn't, I would have bought it and binned it. And I would have felt absolutely justified in doing so.
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