Banning Writing: Why bother?

          While searching on YouTube, I stumbled upon a simple video about how banning books is unethical and unnecessary.  I wanted to comment on this issue because I generally agree with the message in the video. I say, “Generally” because in certain circumstances, I feel as there should be a line left uncrossed. As humans, we have general and mutual morals and ways of nature. Such as, if something bad is going to happen, we try to prevent it, or if something good is going to happen, we let it be. So if a book that is known to a wide public audience with a capturing and persuasive negative message, I feel as there should be some filtration of that book. Whether it be that it gets banned or copies stop being printed, there should be something put in place. For example, if there is a book out there that is sending a message to all Catholics, to go out and harm all Jews, and manages to actually persuade people to do so, it should be filtered out in some way as I said previously. This example now brings me to my next point.

          Being a writer is about sharing a message or opinion, and being a reader, should be about deciding whether you agree or not.  So if a writer's opinion, happens to be that one religion is better than another,  it doesn’t necessarily mean you have to agree with it or have the writers written thought, be shunned.  It is not the writers’ job to create something that everyone agrees with.  Now some may argue that there are different forms of writing, like being a journalist or writing about research, which then makes being a writer about how informative and correct he or she is. Well, what I have to say about that is, on a grand scale, everything has a biased influence or point of view. It will always lean towards one side verses another and from there, everyone also has a slightly different opinion; no two people will ever feel exactly the same about a given topic. I will repeat; everything has a biased influence. Even in science, there are biases. Whether it be, actual human opinion on research that has been collected or human error in the collected research, there is a form of biases, which also affects everyone else’s outlook. Also, in journalism, although it may be an informative means in media, most articles that are read, don’t share every detail of what actually happen, therefore it is biased.

          I have one last thought I’d like to share. First I want you as reader, to stop and just think. Now, think about what you’ve read, here, in the past, all of it. All of it, exactly, all of “it”; as in what you’ve read, has an opinion. I mean, again, stop and think, would you really have read it, if it didn’t. Could you imagine how boring would it be to read something, everything, if it didn’t have an opinion. Like I said before, isn’t that point, the relationship between writer and reader. It wouldn’t be any fun if you couldn’t agree or disagree.