The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #8426   Message #53508
Posted By: The Shambles
11-Jan-99 - 07:45 PM
Thread Name: banned songs
Subject: RE: banned songs
Hank and Kris

I agree with you both, I don't think that it is simple at all, just simple in principle. When you are young though it is all very simple.

As an example we know that the passing of a law and introduction of an age limit, for all the right reasons, will not actually prevent young people from having sex when they decide they are old enough.

The same applies to the drinking of alcohol, the laws in fact, actually put pressure on them to start.

This is where the hypocrisy comes in, the implication of those laws are that we are old enough to do these things sensibly, when they can see plainly that we do not.

As we know banning and prohibition do not work, maybe we should stop doing it as the first and sometimes the only option.

Interesting comment Kris, about censorship being an attempt to make the real world a better place, I think that is exactly what we try to do.

I just think we should at least try the truth.