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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
It's one thing to read something you don't necessarily agree with... we don't need content descriptions for that. It's another thing to read something that deeply offends you, or that you would not want your children to read... you do need descriptors for that.
For most people, such descriptors will do the job as they are intended. If you are so far outside the norm that such descriptors mean nothing to you ("I see that this depicts adult language, but what about carnivorism?"), you have no choice but to review it for yourself. Either way, descriptors don't hurt. They simply provide a research-free way of determining what's in the book.
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That's where Farenheit 451 started. Content descriptors/warnings. Then people took the next step. Why not just outlaw it? Save the step of doing the "warning."
That's my fear. It's one thing to say "let's add descriptors so that parents can make smart decisions." But that's not a far step from that to "Let's outlaw anything anyone finds offensive."