The Argumentative Essay: The Beauty Of America

Every day we are barraged by hateful words and ideas propagated by the use and further integration of technology. This said, even opinions that are deleterious to the relative morality of society have the right to be expressed. Opinions that differ from our own, expressions that are explicit, and actions that are aggressive help cement our own understanding of the world around us and therefore cannot be obstructed. The beauty of America ,and arguably the twenty-first century, is that one can express their own thoughts freely, and via technology can share themselves with an expanded and global audience. The responsibility of a modern person is to be cognizant of their universal audience, and if they fail to do so they must be prepared to fairly argue their point of view to those that disagree, and have the right to do so.

Even conceding that you may never agree with a person 's ideology is a step in the right direction toward a better understanding of others. This is exactly why the recently introduced “safe space” is an affront to education itself. Education should be dangerous. It should be eye opening, and exciting, and heterogeneous. By sheltering pupils from the experiences of others you are interfering with their right to interpret the strength and validity of an argument for themselves. By alienating the works of Mark Twain, Harper Lee, Toni Morrison, Ralph Ellison, and many more profound pieces of literature, for the use of racial language or the discussion of topics that are “too dark” which by some collusion have been determined to not be “politically correct”, you ignore the significance of the literature itself, and discount the human experience itself, because of words that reflect