Erin Lowe- also author of many \\\\\\\"outstanding\\\\\\\" American History essays.... of which two are published somewhere here..... one about Peter Noyes, and another about Mercantilism..... \\\\\\\"Books won\\\\\\\'t stay banned. They won\\\\\\\'t burn. Ideas won\\\\\\\'t go to jail… In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.\\\\\\\" The only way that the ideas of this world that are deemed bad are going to go away is if we are allowed to see them and change them. If we are not allowed to see what is \\\\\\\"bad\\\\\\\" then our society will never grow to become a better place. What censorship does is keep us protected; leaving us living sheltered lives. If we never see a racist comment how are we to know that racism is bad? At the same time Censorship can be a good thing because it keeps children from......
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