Why Ban Thoughts and Opinions?

"If you don't want to read it, don't read it." I fully agree with Brain Garfield on this one, just because someone else's creativity doesn't fancy you doesn't mean that it should be shunned. In Banned Books Week: 13 Authors Speak Out, each one of the authors felt the same way about banning books. I feel as if, if you don't enjoy the content of the literature that you are reading then why are you reading it in the first place? Why go out of your way to put down the work of other authors just because YOU one individual human being does not enjoy what they are reading. I think that writing novels are just another way of expressing your creativity with a piece of paper and a pen; like art when drawing or painting that is another way of conveying your emotions. When banning books it sets a limit of where authors can write too, until it becomes offensive to the society. Walter Mosley said, "It sounds ridiculous to me, it's like banning thoughts, banning ideas, banning people anything that you ban I can see their validity in other situations, and so banning is a hard thing its never an absolute thing." When you censor out what people write down on paper you are practically banning their thoughts and what they believe in, not everyone may believe in the same thing but what makes it right to ban one thing but not the other?