Banning books by Aidan Arbona

This week I've read two articles one of which talks about why  people should ban books and the other which is against it. The Darkness is To Visible by Meghan Cox Gurden and Why the best books are written in blood by Sherman Alexi.  Based off of these articles i see no point in banning books as they cannot harm anyone.

A great point that is brought up in Alexi's piece is that how can teens be traumatized if they themselves have already seen worse, while Cox states that images will just harm them more. In my opinion Alexi is correct, In life we try many new things but sometimes you just end up watching some Disney movie. If you watch that movie over and over again then it will no longer excite. It's like that with experiences. After you've gone through something you know what it's like and it won't hurt you anymore. 

Cox also brings up how everything was better before Y.A. books started to hurt everyone. While Alexi says that people like Cox only want to defend the privileged children  from the outside world. I think that What Alexi says is true and what Cox is doing is trying to keep the innocence in teens for longer periods of time. Which is horrible because after the birds leave the nest they'd have no idea how to handle the real world.

Y.A. fiction can't hurt anyone but instead teach them how to survive when they face this wall and if they already have that others have gone through just the same and even if it wasn't a happy ending, at least they know how to cope with the issues. Banned books can't hurt anyone no words, no images, but people. 

People can hurt anyone.