Freedom of Expression in 20th Century Usa

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Mânzu Nicoleta-Cristina

Although censoring is defined as a drawback of expression, it appears to be compulsory when we talk about a content that children may read. If they meet in one of their favorite book inappropriate language children are likely to copy it. A book should be censored by the authority if it is considered harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient for some reasons. Censoring is done for their protection. For example, Mark Twain`s American classic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was considered racist, harmful and was accused to encourage bad language because of the word „nigger”. There are also many books that were taken into consideration. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee promotes white supremacy, in The Catcher in the Rye the character uses vulgar language and has sexual content and the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov tells an obscene story about a pedophile. It is proved that media, books or other sources of information influences society and the young minds are easier to be affected.

Tucaliuc Diana-Ramona

Freedom of religion is impossible because it is inconsistent with religions themselves. If some religions involve indoctrinating and others forbid changing to a different religion, then the right to freedom of religion is violated. Religions make peaceful prosperity harder to achieve because religious practices have the potential to be, and often are immoral and barbaric. For example, Charles Milles Manson and his followers who believed that Manson was, in fact, Jesus committed a series of nine murders at four locations over a period of five weeks in the summer of 1969. An additional example would be the mass suicide-murder committed by an American religious organization named "Jonestown" in November 18, 1978. Freedom of religion causes more harm than good because religion involves the systematic manipulation of others and it makes peaceful prosperity harder to achieve.

Rîmbu Petronela

Freedom is a good thing but too much of a good thing is bad. A society with too much freedom will eventually corrupt itself. Complete freedom is not a natural human state, and giving it to the individuals is more harmful than not. Most humans are not capable of wisely using their freedom, and so they must be restrained and managed by rules or by those who know what's best for that individual more than than the individual himself.