Books should have content warnings

The fact that books are expensive is an argument for spending more time before you buy a book finding out more about it, looking at reviews, asking for the advice of friends and book store employees. If you can’t find the time to do that, you might not take the time to appreciate the book either. Alternatively, if you’re not sure that the book is worth full price, buy it second hand. If you’re not in the mood for it, keep it to read later, sell it or give it to a friend.

This could be taken to the extreme – anything can cause a vivid mental image – a single word, a tune, another innocent picture we happen to mentally associate with the image. Words are everywhere, we can’t content screen our whole life. We can just deal with the obvious, like knowing whether something shows us the actual image we don’t want to see.

A parent should actually read a book before buying it for a child – otherwise, they can’t discuss it with them. When buying for themselves, a child is unlikely to follow the advice of a content advisory warning and a bookshop can’t refuse to sell books without creating an unfriendly atmosphere in the shop.

It is up to the parent to decide for themselves what is appropriate; summaries of the book’s content are readily available online. If a parent does not want to take the time to seek out this information and read over it before deciding whether to buy the book for their child, they would not read content warnings, either.

People do read differently online – they expect shorter works, they aren’t expecting as high quality, fan fiction is much more popular than original fiction and people will usually want to read something very specific like a pairing between two specific characters. Websites legally have to be content screened for under 18s as well.

Harry Potter had a censorship some time a ago is that a bad influence?

People are likely to disagree with what does and does not need a content warning, just as they do for films. We censor films for violence, sex and strong language but it is debated whether we should censor specifically for homosexual relationships, political or religious controversy, scenes of racism and other discrimination. Content advisory warnings could turn into age ratings, restrictions on books being sold in environments where children will browse books, then outright banning these themes in books.

Once the content warnings are in place, there would end up being cases where people try and sue bookshops for not correctly advising them of book content – because advice labels are lost or obscured, or because customers disagree with bookshops and what should and should not be rated. Second hand books can’t have content advice added to them without risk of damaging the pages and it would cost a lot more than a small bookshop can afford, so the second hand book industry may suffer as a result.

One of two things will happen: authors will find that the books with certain content advisory warnings will look more controversial and exciting and so they’ll sell well, or they will worry about legal backlash from selling these books to children. Either way, they will end up adjusting their content to fit the trend. Nobody wants to read such a book – it won’t be what the author really wants to write, it will be uninspired, feel artificial where content has been edited or removed, is likely to be poorly written.

What happens if I write a book in which the major plot twist is that a character dies – any character at all, not just a specific character – up to now there has been no death – I hide it well in the narrative and then I am legally required to put in a content warning about the death?

already gives potential readers a pretty good idea of what kind of content will be featured in book in question.

Book store keepers are aware of the kind of books they are selling and can advise parents on the kind of books that are suitable for children. Most book stores have different sections based on book content maturity.

Young adults are becoming more and more involved in the world, especially in risky or embarassing behaviors. The problem with this is no one really wants to tell their parents about having sex or doing drugs and ask for their advice. But this is important information for teenagers to gain because they cannot assess their risky behavior if they do not understand all the risks and options open to them. For example, a young girl may become pregnant or contract a sexual disease if she does not learn proper birth control usage. This is why having availablility of more mature literature that touches on these subjects is important. By puting warnings on the books there is a chance of age restrictions being into place like with rated R movies. And if that occurs then more young adults will be ignorant of the risks they are taking.

This argument is books should have content warnings. Because Parents worry that they don’t know if a book is appropriate for their children. My response is book should not have content warnings because right now many people do not read books therefore if book have content warning then there will be less opportunities to read books. Number of people who read a book will accelerate decrease. If parents worry that their children will read inappropriate content then the parents can warn to their children ot tell them it is appropirate or not. The books have many good points. For example, when I was a kid I read many books. Books are very good opportunities to learn words, idiom or sometimes world situations. There are more important things in the books. The book of Harry Potter series had censorship problem a long time ago. But many young children read this book series. Sometimes it is also good way to develop their culture literacy by this book series. Therefore, books should not have content warning it will be increases people who do not read books because books are one of our knowledge teacher.

This argument is books should have content warnings. Because Parents worry that they don’t know if a book is appropriate for their children. My response is book should have content warnings. Because sometimes some book has inappropriate content for example, violence, death or sexual contents. It makes us uncomfortable. These are bad for children. It can be difficult to know the content of the book because I think back cover just tell the main point of the book and usually does not tell bad points. However, Sometimes, children do not know or cannot decide a book is appropriate or not for them. Sometimes, a person become criminal because of the content of the books, some people will mix the real world and fiction and do same thing as book talked about. Therefore, censorship is good way to protect children or even adult people from inappropriate contents. Already some movie or TV show gets censorships therefore, we also need this system for books. Because, everybody wants to enjoy or feel relaxing while they reading books that the reason books should have content warnings.

The argument is Books should or should not have content warnings, and there are many opinions of both sides. My response is books should not have content warnings because if books do this them there will be suppression of our freedom or freedom of expression. Therefore, it will only few books are available to read. Many books are will disappears because many author will get too much stress if there is restrict of the content. Some books are created by true story and if there is inappropriate language or content then we cannot hear real voices. Including inappropriate content is okay because parents or other adults need to teach their children what is a bad, bad actions or languages or common sense. Sometimes these contents are necessary for educations. I think many young teens have curiosity about sexual content, it is okay it just normal behaviors. These are the reasons books should not have content warnings because of our freedom. There is no way to take our freedom.