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This House would ban music containing lyrics that glorify violent and criminal lifestyles
This House would ban music containing lyrics that glorify violent and criminal lifestyles
I like music, not all people like music but i say every single person in this world have heard music. So that's the problem, because all people can hear music so the problem is can you make those music will not harm all people. I say that music containing violence and criminal lifestyles is totally bad for audience. Take example, when your music showed on how you support the violation of husband to children, i say that it will give bad impact to the audience especially for children, because they will think "are you sure all the father in this world like this?" or it will provocate the husband to do so... Even if you say that this is my right to express my expression, but the thing is you can achieve your right when you can make sure that it will be safety at all. You'll get your right if you've fulfilled your obligation. Your obligation is not disturb the right of other people to life safety.
43 weeks 5 days ago
I agree. Freedom of speech in such cases obviously should take precedence over the slight possibility of some people being offended by the lyrics. I am obviously against glorifying violence and we need to encourage those who do so to realise that it is harmful but this cannot be done by slapping censorship on them. Bans will simply create resentment while probably doing little to combat the glorifying of violence in music; it will simply make the music more edgy because it is going against the system as all teens like to do.
43 weeks 5 days ago
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Freedom of speech is an expression claimed right under the article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which sais that ''everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference'' and ''everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in form of art, or though any other media of his choice'' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech). Everyone should have the right to express their selves, and as long as they are not committing violence, talking about it is a right. Now-a-days violence is a reality, and if we can't stop it, we have to try to find ways to fight it. The future doesn't depend on what we listen to, but it depends on what we are going to do, which has nothing to do with art. Furthermore, I think that we shouldn't compromise arts, just because they express a sad - but true - reality that we live today - violence - they can actually help us with critical thinking and they can help us express ourselves as well, because our thoughts have the right to be said.