Argumentative Essay: Should Music Be Censored?

Music is a powerful form of speech and expression. At its most basic level it is meant to entertain, but in some instances, it is so powerful to cause both cultural and political revolutions. My question is, should such an influential expression be censored? I believe despite the power of music, it should not be censored. I believe music carries important messages about life both good and bad that need to be heard. By censoring music, we shut out the ability for people to process and decide on their own those important messages. Furthermore, censorship in any form is a violation of the first amendment. Also I believe the approach should be not censorship, but literacy. Finally, censorship is a matter of opinion and everyone’s opinion is different.
It is not censorship, but literacy. The children and teens of this nation need to be able to understand the rights and wrongs of life. Music is a way to teach them these rights and wrongs. If you censor music, you aren’t teaching them anything. You are blinding them to reality. Life isn’t always lollipops and rainbows. Life is full of hard work, disappointment, and it isn’t always fair. We need to teach people the difference between imagination and reality. Music opens our eyes to what we need to see. If you take that away, no one is going to learn anything and we will all live in shadow. The final reason why I believe music should not be censored is, censorship is a matter of opinion and everyone’s opinions are different. The question is, who gets to decide what needs to be censored? My idea of what needs to be censored could be totally different from another person’s. Censoring based on opinion is like a dictatorship of only a few. Our country is not a dictatorship. We are a country of democracy of the people meaning all of us count. It’s all up to interpretation. The way you interpret things isn’t always what it actually