# What "favorite book" would cause you to walk away from someone?

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I wouldn’t assume someone reading Mein Kampf is a Nazi; indeed, there are plenty of good reasons for an **anti** -Nazi person to be reading it. You can consider a book a favorite even if you oppose it - in a “fascinating in that it shows how bad people think” way.

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