Music censorship has been a subject of debate since the beginning of recording history. Music censorship is the practice of restricting free access to musical works. Songs with strong language, racist views, or harmful references will have warning labels. There are currently no laws regarding music censorship. Censorship has arisen from a wide variety of motivations, including moral, political, military, or religious reasons. Music censorship is wrong and should be eradicated. Music has played an important role in culture for thousands of years; it is a great contributing factor to moral compositions, for some it is a personal refuge, for others it is entertainment, music is an important aspect and censoring music would be racially discriminatory, insensitive and harmful to society. It has been argued that the more intellectually advanced a person is, the more likely they are to be unhappy or clinically depressed and seek solace in heavy metal or another branch of rock music (Unhappy). For a product, many highly intelligent people, whose social development progresses much more slowly than that of most people, have difficulty coping with the life stresses that come to everyone. This inevitably leads these individuals to seek refuge in musical situations where knowledge and skills support their experience. They go through tough times alone because adults tend to believe that the intelligent group of children can handle anything because they are intellectually superior. Adults do not understand that they need assistance. Ernest Hemingway, writer and journalist, is an example of this (Unhappy). He took his own life in 1961; knew both intelligence and unh...... middle of paper ...... ety.Works Cited1. Furrito, David. “Advantages and Disadvantages of Music Censorship.” Entertainment Scene 360. RR Donnelly, January 23, 2008. Web. December 6, 2013. .2. Lombardi, Vittorio. "Music and censorship". Music and censorship. Alan Stuart and Web. 4 December 2013. .3. U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences National Center for Education Statistics International Year of Statistics 2013 (Statistics2013). “Quick facts.” Quick facts. Np, nd Web. 3 December 2013. .4. "Why intelligent people tend to be unhappy." Scribd. Np, nd Web. 5 December. 2013. .