There are many books, and many different styles of writing. I have read many myself, and read some odd stuff not normally put into books. Some made me uncomfortable, some scared me, and some made me happy.
Looking back at this, I've come to a conclusion on censorship and writing - as there are many different types of people, and as everyone is unique, they all have different preferences that they're looking for in a book and some of which would probably be unwelcome to other people. So, there shouldn't be any rules of writing books except 1 - the contents of the book should be given out as a ranking of how mature people have to be and what the overall theme of the book is.
As is done with movies.
This will let everyone read what they want, and give a warning to those who don't like certain things within a book so they don't have to read the book if they don't want to.
Even though the saying we should all live by is 'Don't Judge A Book By Its Cover', if these themes and warning are on the cover, it will allow people to not judge, but understand something about the book they are looking at, and then judge it.
Overall, any type of story that can be written, should be written. Everything is acceptable. But for some things that are written that other people wouldn't be comfortable with, a little warning in the contents and the theme labelled somewhere on the book's cover, would be more than helpful/welcome.
Jackie, I think your argument for a a rating system is very rational. This would allow freedom of expression without put anyone in a position of being offended. I do wonder, however, what should be done about hate literature such as racist works or pieces that encourage persecution of a religious group.
ReplyDelete- as it is done with movies. should continue as part of the previous sentence
- try not to begin a sentence with "but"