Is There A Limit?

In the two minute video "Banned Book Week: 13 Authors Speak Out", talks to us about the arbitrary nature of certain books being banned. In my opinion, no book, regardless of genre or content, should be banned. I think it is just silly and unnecessary for this to happen. I believe that no one really has the authority to ban a book because they do not know the consequences that follow after performing such a mindless action. You are basically banning thoughts, ideas and memories. If the reader does not want to read a specific kind of book due to its content, the reader simply does not have to read it, not go as far as banning it from everyone else to read. The fact that people do censor books is just not fair to everyone else. No one has the right to give a limitation to any type of literary work because that just reduces creativity and human identity. Joseph Caldwell stresses this fact beautifully. Joseph continues to say that literature is the national memory. I agree with him 100%. I believe that there is no limitation, no boundary to writing, and I will show no sympathy to those in favor of banning books. Funny enough, the books that are banned, are the ones that are worth reading. Books such as Zhuangzi, The Epic of Gilgamesh, and Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story by Lisa Westberg Peters. I hope there will be a day that the idea of banning books will cease to exist.