Fahrenheit 451, a novel by Ray Bradbury, is a futuristic novel taking readers to a point in time where books are outlawed. Anyone who has possession of a book will have his or her house burnt down by fireman. If you refuse to leave your novels, you shall burn to death. Is this what our world is coming to? Let's hope not.
             Censorship in music has brought a lot of controversy over the past two decades. Recording artists should be able to say whatever they want, whatever comes to their minds, heck, most do. The problem is not whether the artist uses profanity or says anything inappropriate, it is whether or not the parents are letting their children listen to it. There are parental warnings on all C.D's that have explicit lyrics for a reason. If a parent doesn't mind whether or their child listens to explicit lyrics or not on their new D12 (for example), then that's alright. Why bother trying to keep the kids sheltered for their whole lives anyways? It doesn't work, never has, never will. There will always be someone spreading the word.
             Guidance (G), Parental Guidance (PG), Parental Guidance-13 (PG-13), 14 Adult (14A), 18 Adult (18A), Restriction (R), these are the ratings of movies. The government has these restrictions for a reason; so younger people are not able to view images that may be too mature for their viewing. Once you reach the age of fourteen, you should be able to see any movie that is rated higher (18A and R) for violence and/or language. Of course you must have student identity to be able to enter the theatres that are playing such movies. If this would cause any sort of problem, there is also the idea of having separate theatres, one for motion pictures with the ratings of G - PG-13 and the other with the ratings of 14A-R.
             When one is censored from something, they have already viewed, heard or experienced, it gets on the nerves of the one being censored. W
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