Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said that "“Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime.” Do you agree or disagree with his opinion? Why?
I agree with his opinion because censorship limits our worldview at a time when we need to understand the world around us. Our society is obsessed with control and who has it. Our society and the government lacks confidence in our ability to reason and to think for ourselves. The government thinks that the masses want censorship. They feel the need to control and protect children's minds from the corrupt nature of books and fail to realize that the children have already seen what is in the books. When time comes, children are old enough to make their own choices, and parents should hope that they have developed the critical thinking abilities to question what they read and hear. If parents choose to limit their child, that is up to them. But, no organization, religious or not, should be able to influence public policy to limit children's access to information.
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The children do have the last laugh. Parents now a days are so paranoid with control that they forget that one day little bobby is going to grow up and have a mind of his own and more likely than not, parents are not going to like what they are hearing from their "little" child.
I agree with you that censorship limits the worldview. Children have to depend on their parents, but once they grow up they make their own choices. Parents do not know that this causes a great affect upon children.
It is true that censorship limits the worldview. The parents are always so protective when their children are little, but as they grow up they need to learn what is right or wrong to make a good choice.
I agree that children should just learn and then make their own "adult" decisions when they are old enough to do so and no one else do it for them.
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