What's your opinion on banning books?

Answer 1

books should never be banned.

Answer 2

Don't see a reason why books should be banned. Books are full of art, history, culture, fantasy, mystery, crime...anything and it let's the reader use his imagination instead of watch the scene on tv. Reading the book before watching the movie...people tend to have enjoyed the book way more than the movie.

Answer 3

Banning books would make the world a much more ignorant place to live!

Answer 4

Banning books is just plain wrong. No one should have the right to prevent others from having access to a book just because they don't like that book themselves.

Answer 5

I think it's wrong to try and control the mind in such a way, that will not let ideas evolve in a free nature. Mind you, I am not saying that society should not defend herself against ideas that harm in any way other people or living things, but Baning books is not the way to do so. And if arms are not banned in America - why bann books?

Answer 6

Banning a book because you don't like it's content is pointless and usually just paranoid. In those rare occasions where a book probably should be banned, it's still nearly pointless, since somebody will likely publish it anyway, and you haven't gained much.

Answer 7

I beleive in freedom of speech, so therefore books should not be banned. I also have the freedom to choose not to read them if I think I may be offended by what is in them, and if I do read it, and am offended then I really have no right to tell others not to.

Answer 8

I do not agree to banning books, especially if they are geared towards high school readers. I agree with Wendy S that if a book has high adult content (like sexuality, extreme violence, etc.) then young children should not have access to it. If young children should have access to a book that has Karate-style violence in a cartoonish theme, for example (like my unpublished children's novel, "Real Adventures in a Comic Book") then it should be reserved for leisure reading, not the classroom. Books that deal with controversial things like child death and religious tendencies ("Bridge to Terabitha") should be studied and discussed in a controlled environment in an elementary school setting. Books that deal with puberty and maturity change, (Judy Blume's "Are You There, God, It's Me Margaret") for example would be better reserved for a middle school setting at minimum.

Books like "Catcher in the Rye" should be encouraged for studying in the high school English curriculum, but due to the themes of underage sex, and the profanities, (and the perceived mouthiness and attitude problem of Holden Caulfield *Rolling eyes*) then it should be reserved for Junior and Senior high levels if parents have a beef with it - as well as Grade 13 in the province of Ontario.

Answer 9

We live in a society where rights and freedom are the rule. But, we refuse to be responsible, ignore virtue, integrity, ethics, and morality. Should books be published detailing how to abduct young children? Should we publish books on how to capture and rape a female while she is running in a park?

We should be able to freely write and read books, but, as with all freedoms, there are responsibilities. What are your feelings on books the tell how to:

Massacre a school room? Attack and destroy a police station? Derail trains and kill the passengers. Or the best way to bring down an airliner?

Would you ban the above books or should they be published and made available in all libraries?

Clearly, there is material that is not in the interest of maintaining freedom, supporting either education or entertainment and has no place in in a democratic society!

Your first three responses to your questions shows that no thoughts were given to your question!

Answer 10

The banning of books is the act of barbarians.

Answer 11

If they have adult content, children not have access to them but they should not be "banned". Noone has the right to tell me what to read or not to read. I will read a book that people want to ban faster then any other. Just to say I can.