Would you (36) ________ that you are in the position of a parent. Would you allow your children to read any book they wanted without first checking its (37) ________ Would you take your children to see any film without first finding out whether it is (38) ________ for them If your answer to these questions is "yes", then you are just plain (39) ________. If your answer is "no", then you are exercising your right as a parent to protect your children from what you consider to be (40) ________ influences. In other words, by acting as an (41) ________ yourself, you are (42) ________ that there is a strong case for censorship.
Now, of course, you will say that it is one thing to exercise (43) ________ where children are concerned and quite another to do the same for adults. Children need protection and it is the parents’’ responsibility to provide it. But what about adults Aren’’t they old enough to decide what is good for them (44) ________________. Censorship is for the good of society as a whole. Like the law, it contributes to the common good.
Some people think that it is a shame that a censor should interfere with works of art. (45) ________________.
When censorship laws are relaxed, dishonest people are given a chance to produce virtually anything in the name of "art". One of the great things that censorship does is (46) ________________. To argue in favour of absolute freedom is to argue in favour of anarchy. Society would really be the better if it were protected by correct censorship.
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to prevent certain people from making fat profits by corrupt......