Should heavy metal be banned?

[Racist Commonwelath of East Virginia]

No.

Studies have actually found that, contrary to views that it is nihilistic and harmful, heavy metal may help people process negative emotions and purge anger and depression.

It's a news link, but it says this:

Leah Sharman from the University of Queensland's School of Psychology is researching the impact of music on society.

She said a study of 39 adults aged between 18 and 34 found they were inspired and calmer when they listened to heavy metal.

So, probably not harmful. May actually help.

Also, free expression.

"Introduce an internet license" ... "criminalize dating a criminal" ... "ban heavy metal" ...
Welcome to NSG summer. ^^

Roll on September.

Queensland is not a decent university. American academy of pediatrics is superior and more trustworthy than liberal dominated academics looking for a headline.

[Nucego]

What would be the punishments for breaching said ban? Fines? Community service? Prison? Capital punishment?

Hey, you never know with these propositions.

[The Free Joy State]

No.

Studies have actually found that, contrary to views that it is nihilistic and harmful, heavy metal may help people process negative emotions and purge anger and depression.

It's a news link, but it says this:

Leah Sharman from the University of Queensland's School of Psychology is researching the impact of music on society.

She said a study of 39 adults aged between 18 and 34 found they were inspired and calmer when they listened to heavy metal.

So, probably not harmful. May actually help.

Also, free expression.


Roll on September.

Queensland is not a decent university. American academy of pediatrics is superior and more trustworthy than liberal dominated academics looking for a headline.

I don't know why I'm bothering, but show me your link. To the American Academy of Pediatrics, condemning heavy metal.

I love dissecting studies. So, if you have the link that backs up your claims, please point me to it. You saying it doesn't count.

[The South Falls]

No.

Studies have actually found that, contrary to views that it is nihilistic and harmful, heavy metal may help people process negative emotions and purge anger and depression.

It's a news link, but it says this:

Leah Sharman from the University of Queensland's School of Psychology is researching the impact of music on society.

She said a study of 39 adults aged between 18 and 34 found they were inspired and calmer when they listened to heavy metal.

So, probably not harmful. May actually help.

Also, free expression.


Roll on September.

Queensland is not a decent university. American academy of pediatrics is superior and more trustworthy than liberal dominated academics looking for a headline.

Find me their source then. And also, Queensland is a good university in Australia.

[The New California Republic]

Heavy metal is full of violence and anger. Songs like ‘I’m gonna force you at gunpoint to eat me alive’ and ‘f***ed with a knife’. American Academy of Pediatrics argues the lyrics of heavy metal music influence risky behavior and attitudes, some studies even show heavy metal listners are at a higher risk of suicide and self harm.

Correlation =/= cause. It'd take a lot of evidence to convince me that heavy metal music causes suicide and self harm...

If it is the government’s responsibility to protect society, should heavy metal music be banned?

What an absurd notion.

Clearly, heavy metal should be restricted and controlled, maybe we don’t have to ban all of it, maybe only some?

Oh jeez. And who, pray tell, would decide what heavy metal music should be allowed and banned? The Ministry of Love, perhaps?

[Racist Commonwelath of East Virginia]

What would be the punishments for breaching said ban? Fines? Community service? Prison? Capital punishment?

Hey, you never know with these propositions.

Singers who produce obscene lyrics should be fined. Distribution/owning obsence songs should be made illegal with fines. Records should be burned in public to bring people together and the government should reward people for reporting their neighbors/family/friends who download heavy metal.

[The Free Joy State]

Clearly, heavy metal should be restricted and controlled, maybe we don’t have to ban all of it, maybe only some?

Oh jeez. And who, pray tell, would decide what heavy metal music should be allowed and banned? The Ministry of Love, perhaps?

No, wouldn't it be Mini-Muse? (the Ministry of Music)

[Geneviev]

What would be the punishments for breaching said ban? Fines? Community service? Prison? Capital punishment?

Hey, you never know with these propositions.

Singers who produce obscene lyrics should be fined. Distribution/owning obsence songs should be made illegal with fines. Records should be burned in public to bring people together and the government should reward people for reporting their neighbors/family/friends who download heavy metal.

Burning records. That's really similar to burning books. And that sounds all too familiar. Can't I just keep my music?

[The New California Republic]

Singers who produce obscene lyrics should be fined.

So even merely writing obscene lyrics is banned now??

Distribution/owning obsence songs should be made illegal with fines.

Define "obscene", please...

Records should be burned in public to bring people together

ROFL. That has to be the single most ridiculous excuse for book/music burning that I have ever heard.

the government should reward people for reporting their neighbors/family/friends who download heavy metal.

Stasi. Stasi.

[Racist Commonwelath of East Virginia]

Oh jeez. And who, pray tell, would decide what heavy metal music should be allowed and banned? The Ministry of Love, perhaps?

A council of priests, moralists and well known musicians could be formed to reform appropriate heavy metal music.

[The South Falls]

What would be the punishments for breaching said ban? Fines? Community service? Prison? Capital punishment?

Hey, you never know with these propositions.

Singers who produce obscene lyrics should be fined. Distribution/owning obsence songs should be made illegal with fines. Records should be burned in public to bring people together and the government should reward people for reporting their neighbors/family/friends who download heavy metal.

That's what the Nazis did, my friend. They did just that to get the bible out. They also did that for an excuse to arrest a ton of people.

[The South Falls]

What would be the punishments for breaching said ban? Fines? Community service? Prison? Capital punishment?

Hey, you never know with these propositions.

Singers who produce obscene lyrics should be fined. Distribution/owning obsence songs should be made illegal with fines. Records should be burned in public to bring people together and the government should reward people for reporting their neighbors/family/friends who download heavy metal.

That's what the Nazis did, my friend. They did just that to get the bible out. They also did that for an excuse to arrest a ton of people.

[The South Falls]

What would be the punishments for breaching said ban? Fines? Community service? Prison? Capital punishment?

Hey, you never know with these propositions.

Singers who produce obscene lyrics should be fined. Distribution/owning obsence songs should be made illegal with fines. Records should be burned in public to bring people together and the government should reward people for reporting their neighbors/family/friends who download heavy metal.

That's what the Nazis did, my friend. They did just that to get the bible out. They also did that for an excuse to arrest a ton of people.

[The South Falls]

What would be the punishments for breaching said ban? Fines? Community service? Prison? Capital punishment?

Hey, you never know with these propositions.

Singers who produce obscene lyrics should be fined. Distribution/owning obsence songs should be made illegal with fines. Records should be burned in public to bring people together and the government should reward people for reporting their neighbors/family/friends who download heavy metal.

That's what the Nazis did, my friend. They did just that to get the bible out. They also did that for an excuse to arrest a ton of people.

[The New California Republic]

Oh jeez. And who, pray tell, would decide what heavy metal music should be allowed and banned? The Ministry of Love, perhaps?

No, wouldn't it be Mini-Muse? (the Ministry of Music)

Possibly, but I think it'd be a subdivision of The Ministry of Love, since they are tasked with controlling thought.

[The Empire of Pretantia]

Ban it all, ban it all!

[The New California Republic]

Oh jeez. And who, pray tell, would decide what heavy metal music should be allowed and banned? The Ministry of Love, perhaps?

A council of priests, moralists and well known musicians could be formed to reform appropriate heavy metal music.

[Nea Videssos]

What would be the punishments for breaching said ban? Fines? Community service? Prison? Capital punishment?

Hey, you never know with these propositions.

Singers who produce obscene lyrics should be fined. Distribution/owning obsence songs should be made illegal with fines. Records should be burned in public to bring people together and the government should reward people for reporting their neighbors/family/friends who download heavy metal.

What do you define as "obscene"?

Also, what's to stop everyone just leaving this authoritarian hellhole of a hypothetical country that does this sort of thing? It sounds like a weird combo of some moralistic McCarthyist America plus Stasi-terrorised East Germany.

[Mzeusia]

some studies even show heavy metal listners are at a higher risk of suicide and self harm.

Firstly, banning music is a bad idea as it restricts freedom.
Secondly, to answer this point, it could be said that people who are are suicidal or self-harm tend to listen to this music, not that the music tends to make people act a certain way.

[Andsed]

Oh jeez. And who, pray tell, would decide what heavy metal music should be allowed and banned? The Ministry of Love, perhaps?

A council of priests, moralists and well known musicians could be formed to reform appropriate heavy metal music.

Right cause those people won´t be biased and won´t ban anything they disagree with religiously or politically totally.

[The Free Joy State]

Singers who produce obscene lyrics should be fined. Distribution/owning obsence songs should be made illegal with fines. Records should be burned in public to bring people together and the government should reward people for reporting their neighbors/family/friends who download heavy metal.

Burning records. That's really similar to burning books. And that sounds all too familiar. Can't I just keep my music?

Censorship... Always one of the first steps on the road to totalitarianism.

I'm with Heine: "Where one burns books [edited: or music], there one will eventually burn people."

i.e. where nations restrict ideas and human liberty, they blindly walk a path to total tyranny.

So, no. No burning of books, or music, or films, or anything. No spying. No watching your neighbour and reporting them to some Music Stasi or Song Gestapo.

Just no!

[Alvecia]

Lolno

[The South Falls]

Oh jeez. And who, pray tell, would decide what heavy metal music should be allowed and banned? The Ministry of Love, perhaps?

A council of priests, moralists and well known musicians could be formed to reform appropriate heavy metal music.

This is making censorship palatable for the people. It doesn't make sense.

[Nucego]

What would be the punishments for breaching said ban? Fines? Community service? Prison? Capital punishment?

Hey, you never know with these propositions.

Singers who produce obscene lyrics should be fined. Distribution/owning obsence songs should be made illegal with fines. Records should be burned in public to bring people together and the government should reward people for reporting their neighbors/family/friends who download heavy metal.

I'd rather see the churches burn with Rotting Christ on the background.

Oh jeez. And who, pray tell, would decide what heavy metal music should be allowed and banned? The Ministry of Love, perhaps?

A council of priests, moralists and well known musicians could be formed to reform appropriate heavy metal music.

Good idea. It will popularize antireligious sentiment and motivate enough people to implement state atheism and leagues of militant godless.

[The Free Joy State]

A council of priests, moralists and well known musicians could be formed to reform appropriate heavy metal music.

Good idea. It will popularize antireligious sentiment and motivate enough people to implement state atheism and leagues of militant godless.

Excuse me. I have a religion. Please don't lump me -- or all other people with a faith -- in with this idea.

I think banning heavy metal is ridiculous, anti-freedom, completely unnecessary and -- as the only studies produced to date (by me) have shown heavy metal potentially beneficial -- possibly harmful to the people who enjoy it.

A council of priests, moralists and well known musicians could be formed to reform appropriate heavy metal music.

This is making censorship palatable for the people. It doesn't make sense.

It's not making censorship more palatable to me.

Censorship of art, music, literature or film is bullshit.

Don't like it, don't listen.

Moralists and priests are not placed to judge secular music.