2009-04-08, 01:33 AM
haha01haha01 Wrote:The way i see it, its just people lieing to themselves claiming censorship is needed so they can take action and feel better. let me try and illustarte you how it works (excuse my mspaint skills):That's not how it works. Censorship occurs because overprotective parents are far too aware of a type of learning called observational learning, in other words, learning through imitation. Overprotective parents feel that if children are exposed to erotic material, they're more likely to go out and perform sexual activities with other children. They feel that if children are exposed to profanity and violence, children are more likely to cuss in a public context, or resort to a weapon as soon as argument arises.
That's true to some extent, but censorship overall is harmful. Children will inevitably be exposed to these erotic materials, profanities, or violence one way or another, whether it randomly pops up on the internet, whether peers talk about it, whether they see it in the movies, or whether they see it in TV, ect. What censorship does is that it fails to inform the child which decisions to make.
The only way, thus, is to teach all of these repressed material to it's full extent, rather than censor it in discussions. Unfortunately, this is where I think the schools fail at.
Relating back to the original topic, about the TS starting to learn about censorship, this is WRONG. I believe that schools should teach all sides of the situations, the social contexts that would drive people towards such behaviors, and why one should avoid them, all at a younger age, rather than what schools generally teach it in, which is completely biased towards, "don't say it, don't do it, it's morally wrong."
Maybe your school might be better at teaching it, but I know my school sucked at it. I wish they had did a better job at teaching it.
