Fighting the Principle for the principle of fighting

There have been many articles and essays written on the subject of our generation and how it is missing a purpose. We seem to be without a greater cause that we believe is bigger than us. We do not engage in any unified battles.

When you think about it realistically, banning a book doesn't really keep someone from reading it. We were all children once, and I'm mildly sure we all managed to do things our school did not condone. It's the principle of the thing, isn't it? We say " yes well they COULD just buy the books for themselves if they REALLY wanted to read it but then it's unfair to children that come from families who have very little money. It's the principle of the thing".

The fact is we LIKE feeling like we can fight for our rights on something. I personally have never been negatively affected by a book being banned at my school, yet I feel excited about things like banned book week. It's true that censorship has kept me from doing things I wanted to, but nothing serious. Censorship has never robbed me of a job or any sense of livelihood, but I still want to fight it.

I think we just want to fight for the principle of it all. We want to get riled up, we want to ban together and speak out against something...anything if we believe in it.

I guess hearing all of the discussions for and against banned books and censorship in general has given me the idea that perhaps the point of it all is just to feel passionately about something and fight for it.