The Argumentative Essay Of Banning Books

Books can contain so much knowledge and information, but what happens when children want to read a book with information their parents deem inappropriate? People are afraid that ideas and influences in books their children can read may be wrong. Whether it is sexual content, the presence of magic, or something bad that the parents dislike. This leads to books getting banned. This is a wrong thing to do, as it is unfair, unconstitutional, and, in some cases, completely ridiculous. Banning books is an overprotective way of raising children, and should not continue the way it is.

The main reason for banning books is the fact that many books have content the parents deem inappropriate for their children. They also may deem them too “sensitive”. They often contain sexual content, “dirty” words, homosexuality, and other similar terms. They do not want their children to know anything about these things. But therein lies the problem. The parents know about these things, and their parents almost definitely did similar things as children, and they still found out. Teens are at the age when they start to learn the less wonderful things in life, it’s unpreventable. They are going to learn, and it’s better to learn some things through books than learn them firsthand.
The parents believe that they are dangerous “because the books included witchcraft and the occult”.(Book Censorship) This may be true, but all things are dangerous in some way. Also, if magic could be discovered by reading a children’s book, people already would have done so. The child being “protected” is not the first person to read the book, so if magic could be discovered from it, there would be lots of magical book editors and publishers. It is not my job to discuss the existence of magic, but if it were real, I would