Beatty considered that books were useless, easily replaceable by new media and that some of them could be offensive to certain groups of the society. The reasons given by Beatty which explain why books were destroyed were supported by the idea that new media was simpler, he argued that the time you spent reading a book you could reduce it with new technologies, so for him, books now were useless, becoming less important. Beatty said that after some years, books sells were decreased and people replaced them by new technological advances. By this, in his opinion, there weren’t any censorship or limitation by government. Many of us would be wondering why firemen were needed, Beatty explained that schools were turning out people who love sports and activities and no more creators or intellectuals so this makes people equal which would make them happy. He justified the burning of books by the fact that it was impossible to know which was the reader ’s purposes. Beatty defended the idea of people must be happy, and he was focused on protect minorities so he agrees to censure books that in his opinion were against this minorities and could be offensive to them. He said that this society provided lots of fun to people and that was very important, and for him that was the only important thing for the population.