Is Banning Books Wrong?
Let's deal with language first. Personally I despise the term "bad language". Language is the protocol we use to communicate. Possibly language could be called bad if it was used in the wrong context or was ineffectual in communicating an idea to another person or persons, but this is not what people mean when they say bad language. They mean swearing. But why is swearing bad? Maybe it's blasphemous, but surely people have freedom of speech, or maybe it's sexually explicit, but the world revolves around sex and anyone who does not realise this is living with their head in the sand. No, the reason people complain about the language of others is that it offends something that has been instilled in them through successive generations, the idea that certain words are "bad" and should not be used, particularly before children. This is sad. They're just words, strings of letters, to be found in any good dictionary, and if they get the idea across, who cares? Besides, swearing is fun, but......
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