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CensorshipCensorship is a variety of things from yelling fire in a crowdedtheater to showing sexual telling on television. These thingsarent all either, there are millions of things we use or see every daythat are censored for a reason. The reason can be many but the threemost important reasons are for an adult or childs well being, for thedecency of our society and for privacy of each other. all in all of thesethings are censored because our lives are influenced by these reasonsin one way or another. This will tell you that with out censorship wewould live in a world so dirty and irresponsible so indecent andshameful that it could not exist. We pretty much ignore the growth in strength and sexual abuse in our movies and on television. Have theygone away? According to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania,by the time an average child leaves high school, he or she will havewatched the happening of 18,000 murders on television. Prime time saysthe National Coalition on Television Violence, is filled with degradingsexual material and incidents where violence is strongly glamorized orused to excite. There have been 85 major studies of the effects ofsuch violence on children. Eighty-four of the eighty- five concludedthat it caused an growing in all manner of aggressive behavior, up toand including homicide. What happened to the one study that disagreed?Well, they were paid off by the National Broadcasting Company that justshows how criminal they are of producing violence from television.Another study shows that American children are having sexualintercourse at an average age of 16. If the te levision was notcensored as much as it is today these things would be much worse, ourchildren would be sexual active at very young ages and crime rateswould shoot upward. A civilization does not rise in the strength ofits laws, however. It rises on the strength of its values. Whatvalues are we teaching by not having censorship in our society? No itsnot freedom of speech and its not freedom of the press. It is decency.What all civilize social orders, including our own, have consistentlyidentified as decent, civilized behavior. The real threat to therepublic is not what might happen to rights, but what is happening to a