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Issue68 第14篇 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧!
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作者:寄托家园作文版普通用户 共用时间:35分36秒 590 words
从2004年11月10日23时39分到2004年11月11日0时35分
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People make the mistake of treating experts with suspicion and mistrust, no matter how valuable their contributions might be.
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The speaker claims that it is wrong for people to treat experts who may make a great contribution to society with doubt and mistrust. However, without a doubt, experts who are a normal persons sometimes make mistakes. In my viewpoint, although suspicion and mistrust are wrong sometimes, they are excusable and necessary. It is not our fault.
There are two reasons why people often suspect experts. One is the sense of self-protection. This manifests obviously in the area of medical treatment. For example, a man is ill, and goes to a hospital for help. The result is that there is nothing serious but common cold. However, the man may not be delight for this, because he still worries that something more serious has not been inspected by his doctor. This happens especially among old people who are above sixty. Though it looks absurd, it is comprehensible and not the patient's fault, as everyone wishes to be healthy. Another example is about AIDS, which is one of the most fatal diseases in the world. Though experts persuade that not have bias to those who have infect such a disease, and there are large amount of evidences o show that normal contact cannot cause infection, most people would not like to touch with these patients, and some even are afraid of being close with these patients. This is also entirely comprehensible. Thus, it is people's nature--self-protection--that prevent us from believing experts wholly.
Another reason is that there is difficult for public in accepting new thinking, concepts and so forth. People are often restricted by old or traditional ideas, value and so on. After knowing this, it is not strange that people often doubt, or even laugh at, experts who propose new ideas that is contrast to the old ones. For example, Copernicus's high achievement could not be understood by the public at the beginning, because people at that time had no doubt that the earth was the center of the universe. Darwin's Origin Of Species was also suspected by most people, since people’s chinking was in the control of religion whose idea was that everything in the earth was created by the God. All of these indicate that sometimes it is traditions or old ideas that impede us to absorb new things, which results in mistake of treating experts with suspicion and mistrust.
However, it is necessary for us to doubt experts all the time. Experts are normal persons who are the same as us. No one can assure to be always correct. So suspicion and mistrust is sensible and helpful to us. For example, Galileo's doubt to Aristotle who was the most authoritative man at that time led to the discovery of the law of free fall which plays an essential role in the development of physics. Many high achievements in history were derived from suspicion. In our daily life, doubt is also necessary. Suppose the man mentioned in paragraph two, is indeed misinspected and do not know he gets a fatal disease, he may not live any longer. Thus, sometimes doubt to experts may led to discovery of truth, or at least avoid being harmed by the wrong decisions or recommendations.
In conclusion, it is true that suspicion and mistrust themselves are incorrect sometimes, but people are not wrong. It is necessary to keep doubt to experts, otherwise, we may suffer from great loss. And because of human's nature and restriction of traditions and old ideas, treating experts with suspicion and mistrust is not mistake. |
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