I agree that certain books should be banned.
And I disagree completely. For censorship, whose standards of morality and decency do you use?
Censorship already exists for the most extreme obscene and terrorist material in libraries. You've got to ask why are standards of morality being constantly eroded
Not in my college's library, we have all the radical idealogical stuff you can imagine. Mein Kampf for example. Nobody likes it being there but most of us know that that for free speech, you can hate it but they have the right to express it.
I'm not saying Harry Potter books are going to corrupt a child, but at the least it will desensitize an impressionable mind to the occult. The progessive liberalisation of media is a dangerous road to go down.
Again there are people that think that Harry Potter is bringing kids to the occult and want it banned and burned.
The effects of desensitivation to sex and violence are all to obvious in declining values and increasing crime (in the UK).
Actually the rate of violent crime in the UK has gone down.
I can't see the government doing anything, so I guess self censorship is the answer for those who still care.
That's right the government isn't doing anything because of the right to free speech. The library will stock the book and you can censor yourself by not checking the book out and reading or watching it, while letting the rest of us read or watch it.
Free speech and human rights are wonderful, but what about the right to walk down the street without getting verbal abuse or being attacked!
I always hear conservatives say they are in favor of free speech or human rights. But guess what? Since I voted for Obama, my grandmother is threatening to write me out of the will. I let her express her rancorous attitudes towards Democrats, yet if I even so much as express any doubt over "Saint Palin" as she calls the twit, she takes arms against me.
