Friday, January 21, 2011

Censorship - Good or Bad?

Censoring can be good or bad. It all depends on who, their age, and what the book is about. I mean would you let a five year old read a book about a psycho murderer? Or would you care if a mature sixteen or seventeen year old read the same book? It all depends on the situation.

For censorship
I am all for censor ship in the ages fourteen and below. Some kids just aren’t ready or mature enough until (or after) they are fourteen. I think that swear words and sex references should be censored. I think that it is perfectly fine to censor up to a certain age.
Kids just aren’t ready for uncensored life.

Against censorship
Now on the flipside I believe mature (fourteen plus) should be uncensored. I believe mature young adults are ready to make their own choices. If you want to read uncensored books you have the right to. At fourteen I think you are mature enough to read uncensored books. No government has the right to censor without reason.

2 comments:

kirra said...

i agree youngins should have sensored but near junior high and high school give us some leaverage were groing up! cant censor our lives forever! good post

GusTavo said...

I like your opinion about this because I think that your right. Little kids should be monitered on what they read but for the older youth, they should be able to read any book they want.