Banning Tolkien, some questions - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Iarwain · 05-16-2003, 06:01 PM

In the end, it all becomes a mess of what we don't want at all. People cannot fix the world for others, they can only do it for themselves and through themselves. Censorship tends to be ridiculous, because if there is sufficient, logical doctrine against certain subject matter, it is much more beneficial to explain the reason for rejection of ideas than to merely restrict young ones from it without doing so. In fact, unexplained censorship defeats its own purpose, because while they do not understand why something is wrong, they might take bans as illogical and override the explained and the unexplained teachings of the censors in a mad rush of curiousity.

Iarwain

05-16-2003, 06:01 PM	#37
Iarwain Pugnaciously Primordial Paradox Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Birnham Wood Posts: 800	In the end, it all becomes a mess of what we don't want at all. People cannot fix the world for others, they can only do it for themselves and through themselves. Censorship tends to be ridiculous, because if there is sufficient, logical doctrine against certain subject matter, it is much more beneficial to explain the reason for rejection of ideas than to merely restrict young ones from it without doing so. In fact, unexplained censorship defeats its own purpose, because while they do not understand why something is wrong, they might take bans as illogical and override the explained and the unexplained teachings of the censors in a mad rush of curiousity. Iarwain __________________ "And what are oaths but words we say to God?"