A government has the duty of protecting the individual rights of its citizens by stating laws, which are actually a set of rules to ensure the harmonious and safe interaction of society. Based on determining the moral values of society, whether or not laws align with morality, they have everything to do with the personal sense each individual has of moral values, but there is a really important question we must consider; if our laws were based on “morality”-whose morality would we use?
Religious people try to find the answer to moral right or wrong in several religious texts, but where do these scriptures come from? Looking back in history, origins of such pieces of literature are shown to be written by mysterious writers in a very distant past, which means that there is no clear evidence to establish the authenticity of these religious texts. Due to the translation and copying of these writings, religious texts have become so ambiguous that it is often necessary to investigate and re-interpret their true meaning. The translation from one language to another provides a huge space and opportunity for misinterpretations, since each translator and interpreter, depending in their personal thoughts, beliefs and experience have different comprehensions and notions of the original language.
The truth is that the fundamental foundation of religion is actually faith, meaning that the people believing in these doctrines and facts are not actually certain that they are reliable and true since they were written so long ago and they were not actually there to be able to say that they are completely certain these are accurate, basically, they are all just adapting to a morality based on individual preferences and convictions and actually, ever...
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Clearly, banning books not only restricts the people’s educational development but also leaves them unaware of the true state of the world and unprepared to face real world challenges. The government shouldn’t have a say in this, since ultimately it is each individual's decision to selects his or her reading material.
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The Constitution states: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Even though books may influence young minds with negative thinking, society shouldn’t ban books because it prohibits learning and it violates the First Amendment in the Constitution. Banning books takes away the author’s right, some books can be very educational, and it takes away the children’s choice of what they get to read.
...in restrictions are needed. Pornography should not be available to children. I do not have a problem with parental advisory labels on music. However, putting a ban on all books is a very scary proposition. Bradbury's novel does not come close to describing how miserable this world would become. Everybody in this world depends on books whether or not they are literate. It can be said that we get most of our morals and values from books. These morals are found in books such as the Bible, Aesop's Fables, and sometimes even the trashy romance novels that women tend to love. Without books, the world could be explained in one word, educated. An uneducated world is a miserable world full of fighting and conflict. An uneducated world is a world at constant war. A world with out books is a dystopian world.
One of the biggest controversies of the twentieth century is the eighteenth amendment. Mississippi was the first state to pass the bill of prohibition. From there on out the entire country followed in Mississippi’s lead in the crusade of prohibition. The eighteenth amendment was a law, which tried to reform and protect the American people against alcohol, as some called, “the devil’s advocate”. The outcome of prohibition was more negative than positive and reeked more havoc than good on the American society.
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The government believes it is much easier to control a society full of dumb people, so they put up an law to restrict books from the public. “We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal... A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man’s mind”. Books are dangerous, not because they physically are, but because of the knowledge they contain can bring about any opponent. Ideas and knowledge makes people question how things are, and allows them to see all the problems within this corrupted
The Failure of Prohibition Source Based a) One way in which source A and source B agree concerning the consequences of prohibition. When it was introduced it caused a lot of illegal activity. Source A shows how by saying, "It (prohibition) created the greatest criminal boom in American history and perhaps in all modern history. " Source B shows this because it says, " by 1928 there were more than 30,000 illegal speakeasies" in New York.
Humanity is taught to be moral, to do good and avoid evil. However those lessons become foolish when we ask what is morality, the thing that we are told to achieve. For many morality is doing what is good and doing good is moral. This roundabout answer may be satisfactory to some that only look at the surface of the issue, however once the digging begins the grad question of morality comes into question. While this question has been looked an infinite number of times without being universally solved certain patterns have been made in the conclusions great thinkers and scholars come to regarding morality. One of these particular ideas involves a rationalist perspective that rationality defines morality or that moral failings imply rational failings. This concept is supported by Shafer-Landau and Korsgaard while thinkers like Williams and Foot disagree with such a claim. It should be understood that morality and rationality are intertwined were a moral failing correlates with a rational failing.
Prohibition In the 1920s, the 18th Amendment banned a persons right to manufacture and purchase liquor. Banning the transportation, manufacture and sale of “intoxicating” beverages was known as prohibition, the most controversial law of that century. Prohibition was strongly supported by the government and women in America that were being abused. Important groups of that time are the “Dry’s” and the “Wet’s”.
years but now wanted to spread it to the rest of the USA. Many people
The Government cannot legislate morals, even though laws are based on them. “All laws bear some relation, however distant, to a moral evaluation of good and bad. We cannot escape making moral distinctions” (Esolen). In the instance of prohibition there were two different views of morality. Those who thought drinking led to sinful behavior, and those who thought alcohol wasn’t a bad thing. In the case of prohibition, people wanted there booze and they found a way to get it. They thought that drinking was okay. This shows that everybody has a different moral compass. “One man’s theft is another man’s redistribution of income. One man’s defense of family honor is another man’s murder” (Esolen). The legislation of morals by the government has proved to fail more than once. Joe Messerli says that the governments’ legislation on marijuana is based upon assumed morals and that in infringes upon citizens basic rights. (Messerli). This ties to prohibition because People felt very strongly about something
Book banning in the United States and anywhere else in the world I feel should be abolished. Books are published and written for a reason. The reason is to expand the mind to new things. Sure some books are better than others but there is no reason to challenge or ban books.
The idea of banning books are to protect our children from having their minds be poisoned of fictional ideas from fantasy books, safe from violence, protected from adult contents that are too early for them to know about.
Censorship in School Libraries The most debatable and controversial form of censorship today is the banning of books in school libraries. Banning books that educate students is wrong and selfish. Censorship of books in school libraries is neither uncommon nor an issue of the past. Books with artistic and cultural worth are still challenged constantly by those who want to control what others read. The roots of bigotry and illiteracy that fuel efforts to censor books and free expression are unacceptable and unconditional.
Book banning has a long history and has made both positive and negative impact on readers. People have been trying to stop books from being banned, but there are also people that are trying to ban books to protect their children. Many books have been challenged and even banned because of the “inappropriate” content the books contain such as profanity. Books have started to get censored since the 1500’s and has threatened many cultures. The people who ban and censor books think that they are protecting the readers from the information, but it is secluding the readers from getting more ideas. This creates a negative impact on the readers, especially high school students. People don’t realize that book censorship limits the way they view the world. Many books have been banned in American high schools because of political, religious, sexual, and social reasons. Book banners and parents should be more lenient in what the book expresses because it teaches readers, such as high school students, many lessons that will help them in life.
When considering morality, worthy to note first is that similar to Christian ethics, morality also embodies a specifically Christian distinction. Studying a master theologian such as St. Thomas Aquinas and gathering modern perspectives from James Keenan, S. J. and David Cloutier serve to build a foundation of the high goal of Christian morality. Morality is a primary goal of the faith community, because it is the vehicle for reaching human fulfillment and happiness. Therefore, great value can be placed on foundations of Christian morality such as the breakdown of law from Aquinas, the cultivation of virtues, the role of conscience in achieving morality, and the subject of sin described by Keenan.