CENSORSHIP

Consider the merits and demerits of censorship and state your reason why you think it is un/necessary.

Censorship is used to restrict things that are not meant for people of a certain age especially children. It could be because of the violence that it depicts or maybe even the wrong values that it will instill in young children example pornography.

But is it good to censor things or should we let the childern see the things that should be censored since they will have to face it sooner or later? Is it appropriate to shelter them from what is happening in the world and let them be naive thinking that everyone is trustable? This is what censorship does to people.

Without censorship, the world may be in chaos because wrong values will be taught to children. For example, showing a nine year old child violent scenes in a movie where people die for no reason, people taking revenge on their enemies or maybe even to the extent of limbs not being together with the corpse and muderers are not caught by the police. When he grow up, will he think that doing all these are common and he could get away so simply thus doing it? If thats the case, the world be in chaos with people taking revenge and killing each other.

Therefore, i think that censorship is necessary. Although they will be sheltered, not knowing whats happening, we can slowly introduce the various things at different age when they are appropriate to know instead of being open and let the small children know everything resulting in instilling the wrong values in them...