Critical Thinking: The Censorship Of Pornography

In my opinion, the concept of thinking critically involves deep thinking and concentration in evaluating things around you – what it is, why it occurred and how. Critical thinking also allows you to be conscious about the ideas and actions of yours as well as others. This would include questioning the credibility and source of information given by others. Therefore broadmindedness is often a trait of critical thinkers – they are able to weigh and “be critical” to ideas produced via multiple perspectives.
On the other hand, non-critical thinking simply means to receive information blindly (like sponges soaking water). People who don’t “think critically” tend to be biased and will rarely relate to other perspectives. As such, non-critical thinkers would not be able to argue as effectively as critical thinkers. …show more content…
Jacoby’s essay is more focused on how pornography cannot be censored and that there are different views to pornography. Some may see it as a form of entertainment, some others may see it as a form of elitism or sexism. Due to the vague definition of pornography, on top of the fact that she based on the first amendment that any kind of censorship is violating freedom, Jacoby based herself on a very strong evidence from the action took by the congress itself – an authority figure to support her thesis.
However, Brownmiller insists that pornography should be censored as explicitly stated in the title: “Let’s put pornography back into the Closet.” (pg. 61) Brownmiller also wrote that the purpose of pornography is to humiliate and degrade female bodies for pleasure and she believes that pornography is immoral to humanity. She explained how female bodies are “mutilated” and “raped” (pg. 62) in pornography and she explained in such a way that pornography sounds like a form of entertainment at the cost of the dignity of