I have written in the past about some of the seductive qualities of suppressing unpleasant speech in my entry titled, The Seduction of the Thought Police.
Below are some points that I made in that entry:
“…when faced with realities that seem unforgiving or complicated, fiction quickly becomes a tantalizing target to control and punish.”
“Regulating fiction and art is never effective, and it never addresses the causes behind violence, but it makes us feel better. We feel we have done something, even if it is futile.”
“Thought policing never stops a person from having evil thoughts. Thought policing makes us feel better. It does not make us safer.”
I would like to add a few more points, specifically about the dangers of introducing real life rights into the realm of fiction and how that can be a losing proposition for everybody.
How would you respond to the following…
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