Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.~The louder the microphone, the smaller the amount of deviance that can be allowed.
~Society has a right and a strong interest in controlling speech.
~Look at what happens when people don’t restrain themselves?
~Words have tremendous power, and power in the mouths of fools is nothing but damaging.
~Blasphemy, heresy, indecency, vulgarity, and general immorality are all spoken under the banner of free speech. Are we better off for this freedom?
~Speech leads to thoughts. Thoughts lead to actions. We have no problem restricting actions. ~Why would we have a problem restricting the speech that gives birth to them?
~The disciples burned books in Acts 19, are we not supposed to think of this as an endorsement of book banning?
~An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
~You can’t unsee things, nor can you unread them.
~People, and especially children, should be protected from things that will damage them.
~Ideas have consequences, and if we actually believed this, we’d prohibit certain ones.
~You can’t simultaneously maintain that ideas matter so much that they should be protected and yet also claim that none of them are so awful as to deserve prohibition.
Links:
Books banned in the US by Adler Books
Banned books week by American Library Association
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