I am kind of in the middle on this subject. I understand that the list of banned topics are sensitive subjects to some and therefore may not need to be expressed in a classroom setting. However I also feel that it should be ok to talk about these things in a paper simply because we are on an online class and the teacher is the only person seeing it. I guess you could say that the teacher who reads it could be more judgmental toward that student if she did or did not agree with what they wrote. So as you can see I don’t really know how I stand on this. I personally would not want to wrote about any of those topics simply because I would be expressing my own opinion and don’t want to offend anyone else or their beliefs. We live in a free country and we should be able to talk about whatever we want but while in this class the teacher has the overall say on what can and can’t be discussed. It’s like religion and politics, you can’t openly talk about either one of them without someone around you stepping up and putting their opinions out there and disagreeing with you. Very rarely people talk about these subjects and someone does not get upset or their feelings hurt. I guess it would be better off just being safe than sorry and not allow the class to write about gun control, abortion, or any other banned topic.