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本帖最后由 witchyaya 于 2009-2-16 22:26 编辑
第一篇,写得太慢了。。
耽搁的ARGUMENT也没时间了,一会加班写吧。。
Issue224 “Censorship is rarely, if ever, justified.”
Censorship, as a method of management, has been utilized in various fields. It is no doubt that it acts as a way of supervision in whichever organization or institution. In order to achieve a prospective result, the censors being representative of benefit agents must have been utilizing different rationales. Whether certain censorship system justified or not should, in my opinion, be estimated by its rationale of censoring and the prospect it aims at and, above all, its real-life practice and effect. To clarify my viewpoint, I will compare the beneficial censorships with the controversial ones in the following paragraphs.
The occurrence of melamine case, I believe, must have been a haunting lesson warning not only Chinese but people all over the world pay much more attention on the security of food. In retrospect, if more rigid censorship and administration system have been put into practice, those sympathizing infants would not have suffered so much. Learned from this disastrous lesson and under ever intensive supervision, the censorship has become much more prudent and careful which is obviously more beneficial and justified than before.
As the age of staring to get online is smaller and smaller, the moral censoring to the content on the webpage becomes more and more important. Through moral censorship, the censors appointed by related responsible government administration would remove words and pictures they deem to be obscene or otherwise morally questionable. Pornography, for instance, has caused many teenage crimes, and therefore, is censored in most jurisdictions all around the world. Such censorship system as the moral censorship is definitely a justified and beneficial wherever it is used.
Apart from the two mentioned examples, there are many other kinds of successful and justified censorship such as the censorship of medicine security, the film-rating system etc. However, no all of censorship systems are so encouraging and optimistic.
One persuasive example I would like to cite here is some religious censorship in human history. In order to protect and maintain its authority, Copernicus and Bruno insisting on their common belief, the heliocentric theory, were censored and viewed as the pagans and forced to violate their belief, which turned out much more close to the truth later. Such censorship based on the organization’s private governing intention shall never be justified. Similar situation exists in some institution or organization of modern society as well. The media censorship in some country removed and canceled some information intentionally for some political reasons, which in wide rage is unjustified under the terminal pursuit of freedom, but apparently unavoidable in present so as to realize certain management.
To sum up, censorship itself, as one of the management methods is a essential part of any administration system. Reasonable and judged censorship will bring a lot of benefits to both the organization it exists for and the people the organization serves and supervises. In reality from past to today, censorship, justified and unjustified, exist commonly. However, as civilization develops, I believe, unjustified censorship will be gradually replaced by those more reasonable ones.
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