PC nation (Are Britain's censorship laws too strict?)

Member Name: philosofool

Product:	Are Britain's censorship laws too strict?
Date:	17/07/02 (40 review reads)
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Advantages: I can play music in the street

Disadvantages: I can't be too loud or offend any ethnic minorities, agegroups, social groups, politicians, etc.

We may have ben the pioneers of democracy, but public speaking and honest opinions are slowly withering away.

This isn't revolutionary, but we should realise the repressions thhat we are faced with every day. We can't listen to the music we want, because it is disjointed by bleeps. We can't watch what we want when we want because it will offend someone. In a way it boils down to a kind of maternel over-protection, where the slightest risk of offence will be obliterated. And if you think about it, at some level anything can in theory offend anybody. If this religous censorship is adopted and expanded, nothing will be left in the way of creativity, humour, art. Shouldn't the majority be satisfied instead of the minority?

Political Correctness is the en vogue censorship within the governmental systems. They love it. Trying to take everything to a level where everyone will be satisfied, but in the process just sound stupid. Does anyone really prefer the ambitous title of 'Waste disposal management' to garbagemen? sorry, I meant to say garbagemen/women. That's better. 'Vehicle and motor sale and distribution'? What's wrong with car salesman? Oops, sorry, too gender specific again. sorry this is just getting boring.

Still, we can't complain. We live in a society where we can see educational exhibits like 'Bodyworlds' (www.bodyworlds.co.uk) where human beings are displayed in a plasticised, immortal form, which serves as a great educational tool. In many countries this would have been banned for moral and legal reasons. And we have sites like dooyoo. Freedom of speech to the world wideness of the web. It's just human will for wishing that things were that little bit freer.

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