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A number of lawsuits have been brought against popular singing groups charging that suicidal themes in their songs have led to teenage suicides. So far, the courts have found that the lyrics are protected under the Constitution. But what if this shouldchange and a court decides that suicidal themes in popular songs are dangerous? In fact, the songs that have been charged so far are anti-suicide; they present I sardonically the self-destructive behaviour of drinking, drugs, and escape by death. Theydescribe a pitiful state of mind, but they do not endorse it. I Blaming suicide on the arts is nothing new. In the late eighteenth century, Goethe's popular novel The Sorrows of Young Wether was said to be the cause of a rash of suicides in imitation of the novel’s hero. If we begin to holdsuicide in books or music responsible for suicides in real life, the operas of Verdi and Puccini will have to go, and Romeo and Juliet and Julius Ceaser will disappear from the high school reading lists. I Which one of the following is an assumption necessaryto the author’s argument? I

A lyric presenting suicide in a favourable light should not have Constitutional protection.
Literature or music cannot directly influence human behaviour.
Freedom of speech is most threatened by our personal freedom. I
The audience, not the performer, is responsible for the audience’s actions

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