Censorship when we are given the sense of knowledge and reality?
By viney17
@viney17 (688)
Philippines
October 2, 2011 8:10am CST
so i read about this two opposing arguments of Nafisi and Plato, well two great philosophers they may be but they think in the opposite way.
So we are given knowledge and reality around us, so why bother to censor things?
I know people may sometimes 'know too much" and can put them into danger, but if we are fools on this planet we may not survive that long.
So what do you think ? should we still implement censorship given the people around us already give us the sense of knowledge and reality?
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@Adoniah (7513)
• United States
2 Oct 11
Not everyone is capable of absorbing knowledge and not everyone has attained enough knowledge to handle certain information. A little child should not be exposed to certain information...By not exposing them we are censoring their access to info...I do not think that this is a bad thing.
When a country is trying to defend itself from enemies the government offend censors information relating to its military movements...this too is a good form of censorship.
There are some forms of material and pictures that are considered offensive to the majority of the people living in a country. These materials are often censored. These feelings are called moral norms. These moral norms change as societies change. They are not a bad thing as long as it is a true majority.
As far as reality goes...LOL Not everyone is living in the same reality as the rest of the world. I will not go there...
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@mythociate (21437)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
31 Oct 11
Right, but 'learning things that are supposed to be secret' happens in a different context than 'learning things that are supposed to be shared.'
Of course, 'The Internet' (like most 'new-fangled ways of spreading information') has kind of blurred that understanding so much that people are anxious to spread secrets as soon as they've learned them.
For instance, I recently saw on YouTube a video about how The Bible is written in the stars; the video poster presents that as 'evidence' that Biblical evennts didn't really happen, but I see that more as evidence that Jesus & friends were given instructions by The Keeper of the Stars and that they managed to manifest those events by cooperating!
But I'm not thinking many other people meditated that far on the video, leaving with the idea that Jesus-&-friends DIDN'T happen! Dangerous to those of us who depend on people's continued faith in the Christian story.
@viney17 (688)
• Philippines
9 Nov 11
I do not really believe that there are things that are not meant to be known, if they really are secret that must not be discovered then why are they in this world in the first place? Secrets are meant to be known for me, i think its not that foolish to be curious in things. It's not curiosity that lead people to danger, but it is their carelessness.
