Comment censorship in school ? (Score 2) 588
I've got a problem with censorship alltogether. I fully agree that there need to be some limitation to what can be said/shown/heard/read/written, but my i feel that it's more essential to educate people.
I come to my point: if i were to see a neo-nazi site with extreme propaganda, it will not make me think that nazism is good by god sake. And i would not think so, because i was educated to think that way. People wise and with more experience than me have been kind enough to share their experience and knowledge with me, so that I could make up my mind about what is wrong and what is right.
So I think what is much more important than preventing people to access information is to teach team how to understand it, teach them to read between the lines. By experience I can say that I was, and I'm always, attracted by "things" I'm not supposed to experience/live/do, not because they are wrong (or right ...) but because nobody ever took time to explain me what those "things" were about.
Knowledge is power,
Ignorance is a plague.
BTW: what's the problem with porn ? Children are all the time in contact with some degree of sexuality. Adult's answer: it's about love ... nope, sex is about reproduction instinct, and sometimes is accompanied with love and such high rated feeling. But children, and even most of grown men and women out there should make the distinction between what's reality (mother and father loving each other (or not anymore) for a lot of other of reason than sex) and fiction (porn actors fucking 24/24 7/7 for ... money) ... maybe confronting children with hardcore porn early and explaining that it is just a fiction and not a goal to achieve could spare them visits to sexologist later ...
if sexologists or porn actors want to reply or give advice, we'll sure be glad to ear your opinion :-)