GMAT考试写作指导：Issue写作范文十五

　　15. The issue here is whether an international effort to regulate childrens access to

　　adult material on the Internet is worthwhile. In my view, nations should attempt to

　　regulate such access by cooperative regulatory effort. I base this view on the

　　universality and importance of the interest in protecting children from harm, and on the

　　inherently pandemic nature of the problem.

　　Adults everywhere have a serious interest in limiting access by children to

　　pornographic material. Pornographic material tends to confuse children―distorting

　　their notion of sex, of themselves as sexual beings, and of how people ought to treat one

　　another. Particularly in the case of domination and child pornography, the messages

　　children receive from pornographic material cannot contribute in a healthy way to their

　　emerging sexuality. Given this important interest that knows no cultural bounds, we

　　should regulate childrens access to sexually explicit material on the Internet.

　　However, information on the Internet is not easily contained within national

　　borders. Limiting access to such information is akin to preventing certain kinds of

　　global environmental destruction. Consider the problem of ozone depletion thought to

　　be a result of chloroflourocarbon emissions. When the government regulated

　　CFC production in the U.S., corporations responsible for releasing CFCs into the

　　atmosphere simply moved abroad, and the global threat continued. Similarly, the

　　Internet is a global phenomenon; regulations in one country will not stop

　　contamination overall. Thus, successful regulation of Internet pornography requires

　　international cooperation, just as successful CFC regulation finally required the joint

　　efforts of many nations.

　　Admittedly, any global regulatory effort faces formidable political hurdles, since

　　cooperation and compliance on the part of all nations―even warring ones―is

　　inherently required. Nevertheless, as in the case of nuclear disarmament or global

　　warming, the possible consequences of failing to cooperate demand that the effort be

　　made. And dissenters can always be coerced into compliance politically or

　　economically by an alliance of influential nations.

　　In sum, people everywhere have a serious interest in the healthy sexual

　　development of children and, therefore, in limiting childrens access to Internet

　　pornography. Because Internet material is not easily confined within national borders,

　　we can successfully regulate childrens access to adult materials on the internet only by

　　way of international cooperation.