Does media cause societal , or does society create media violence? Censoring our media may be harming our children and society. Teaching our children the world is a perfect place could beharming our society. Because we are imperfect beings we tend to avoid being hones and open whenit comes to distasteful and disturbing subjects like sex and violence. Failing to educate our childrenon the ramifications of sexual and violent behavior is like giving a child a loaded gun with nosupervision. Education and information is the foundation of our democratic society.We Americans live in a free society and our freedom comes with a price tag: accountability. If youwant to play, you have to pay. Media censorship limits our right to explore and learn from personalexperiences, even when our choices may be harmful to ourselves and others. Suppression ofinformation through censoring our media may be a factor that plays into our society’s violentaggressive behavior.Censorship is the by product of fear. Society fears certain kinds of information that may beharmful to our children. Trying to focus on what information should be repressed is a emptygesture. There are to many points of view in America’s multi-cultural society There is as manypoints of view to what is right or wrong as there is people. Suppressing personal truth not onlyharms physical health but degrades our Democratic way of life. The causation of repression is ignorance and ignorance breeds frustration. Frustration is thetrigger for violent aggressive behavior like: anger, hatred, jealousy, greed, and depression. Couldcensorship be a breeding ground for violence?Censorship is like chemo therapy; you may kill the cancer, but you might also kill the patient. Maybethe side effects of censorship are to costly and we as American citizens should explore alternativetherapies to what ails us....
