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Saving Our Children from the First Amendment (Critical by Kevin Saunders

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Other adults have no right to subvert those rules by insisting on pro­ viding the objectionable material. Where these third parties attempt to expose children to material that is sufficiently contrary to societal views as to what is acceptable, society should be able to impose legal restric­ tions. Neither does the free-expression role in maintaining social control or a safety valve carry over from speech to adults to speech to children. Where people have complaints about society, they should voice these The Most Important Freedom | 41 complaints to those who can do something about them.

The value placed on this cluster of ideas derives from the notion of self-re­ spect that comes from a mature person’s full and untrammeled exercise of capacities central to human rationality. . Freedom of expression . . supports a mature individual’s sovereign autonomy in deciding how to communicate with others; it disfavors restrictions on communication imposed for the sake of the distorting rigidities of the orthodox and the 28 | The Most Important Freedom established. 27 Richards seems to recognize that autonomy interests do not apply, at least with the same strength, to children.

Nonetheless, leaving the task of molding those minds to the children’s parents and to the state, through the schools, should not lead to the frustration of concern to Emerson. Adults still have a role in the current political debate, and a part of that debate will be the educational process. If an individual believes that the educational system should be changed, the arguments of that person should be directed toward other adults rather than directly to children. The Most Important Freedom | 35 The only adult who should feel frustrated by such a route is one whose arguments are incapable of winning a majority and who wants to subvert the political process by appealing to less rational youth in hopes of a fu­ ture triumph.

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