Censorship is rarely, if ever, justified.
审查很少能够做到公正。
正文:
Censorship is a word which seems to be authoritative rather than democratic, which implies the will of the governors rather than the will of general people. Since the occurrence of the censorship, which could be traced back to the Ancient Rome, it has been playing an important part in the domestic affairs while arousing applause and condemnation as well. Here the our government faces a dilemma, is it fair to carry on the censorship at the cost of sacrificing part of democracy, or just open the gate letting flows of ideas and thoughts in, at the risk of losing its own rampart.
Since censorship suggest an act of changing or suppressing speech, writing or any other forms of expression that is condemned as subversive of the common good, it must have a close relationship with the one who applies such supervision, and the word common good should be redefined under different conditions. There is time when we were all under a powerful monarchy, and the common good is the monarch good, then the censorship itself is the instrument of the monarch which solely depended on the will of the monarch; in the Middle Ages, both the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Churches practiced censorship that seemed to be oppressive to any ideas challenging the doctrines of churches and the existence of God; even now, in some authoritative countries, the censorship is used to rule its people by restricting their minds, of course, for the stability of their governing over the people. With these regards, censorship itself is questioned at the rationality of existing, regardless of the practices made by the democratic government, while the justice of the democratic government is quite doubtable.
The matter concerning is not only who practices the censorship but also how it is practiced. Since different men make different comments on the same work of art, for example, it is hard to set up a measure by which we could decide whether one should be prohibited, especially to the work of arts, as its content always labeled as subversive and revolutionary, two words detested by the governors most. Such cases could be found in Ulysses by J. Joyce and Lady Chatterleys Lover by D.H Lawrence, these two great novels were firstly considered to be guilty of obscenity and were put to prohibition by the American government, but turned out to be true masterpieces today. So any form of censorship, to some extent, lags behind the development of ideas and will put more or less a negative effect on their development.
Though the censorship is such a disgusting word embodying so much oppression and might, it is a compromise we made with the reality far from being perfect, to provide a comparative stable ground which we could stand on. At this point, I dont agree with the institute like ACLU who oppose any censorship. The censorship, though rarely justified, should exist as long as a more ideal and practical form is found to replace it, or we could only expect our God to create a more ideal species instead of imperfect human beings.
盘点2011年全球最“潮”的工作(双语)
热门事件学英语:微博实名制 你怎么看?
资讯热词:“绩效工资”怎么说?
职称英语考试语法知识复习之动词
双语:研究称人类无法分辨男女
百万张奥运门票发放全国中小学
麦当劳的奥运“嘉年华”
奥运电影经典台词11句
给你支招:让你躲过“电梯杀手”的17招
北京奥运机动车限行措施昨日启动
奥运让北京更文明
走马观花看美国:体验世界过山车之最
台湾咖啡店标明咖啡因含量卖咖啡
民众提前45小时排队买奥运门票
孩子开销大怎么办?
阿联酋重金奖励夺奥运奖牌运动员
双语:总统女儿晒美钞炫富引众怒
360度看伦敦 世界最清晰全景图出炉
欧盟报告称立陶宛为“谋杀之都”
漫画英语之节后综合症
英语资讯:土耳其东部发生7.2级地震(双语)
谷歌街景拍到有人街头生孩子 旁边医院毫不知情
情人节在即 马尼拉上演浪漫集体拥吻
奥运给北京树起新地标
荷兰新推宠物狗啤酒 主人可与狗共饮
盖茨基金会支持北京“无烟奥运”
周杰伦与“台湾第一美女主播”亲昵..
漂亮妈妈多生女 美男渐成稀缺品
威廉准新娘订婚白裙网上火热拍卖
双语:新型电脑芯片可让电脑提速20倍
不限 |
英语教案 |
英语课件 |
英语试题 |
不限 |
不限 |
上册 |
下册 |
不限 |