Is music ultimately more harmful than beneficial to society?
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person
Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is music ultimately more harmful than beneficial to society?". Your opponent's style: person
User
music has the power to influence people and people are taking it and making it a disadvantage
person
You've just proven the opposite of your claim. If music has power to influence, that power is neutral—it's how *people choose to use it* that matters. So which is it: is music dangerous, or are people?
User
i think music is dangerous but since you say it is neutral who made it a human beign so i say we should have more power to music because we made but we act like slaves to music
person
That's circular logic—you're blaming music for our own choices. We made it, we control distribution, we decide what to listen to, yet somehow music enslaves us? That's just abdication of responsibility dressed up as critique. If we're slaves, who's holding the whip, and why can't we drop the chains we forged?
User
this demonstranstrated in the song that the whole word was the n word
person
You're conflating a song's content with music itself—those are different things. A problematic lyric doesn't indict the medium, it indicts the artist's choice. So what's your actual argument: should we ban the tool, or hold people accountable for how they use it?