Ullman: Plato argued that because of the harmful ways in which music can manipulate the emotions, societies need to put restrictions on the music their citizens hear. However, because musicians seek not to manipulate the emotions but to create beauty, this argument is misguided. Ullman's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it fails to consider the possibility that ["artists who are trying to manipulate people's emotions to control them are not likely to admit it", 'those with the power to censor music would not censor other forms of expression', 'there are other, more convincing arguments for allowing the censorship of music', 'what musicians intend their music to do and what it actually does are different']