第一次的issue，轻拍~~~谢谢各位啦

grapheneUID: 2695471

2.Competition is ultimately more beneficial than detrimental to society.
The speaker claims that competition is ultimately more beneficial than detrimental to society. I partly agree with him. As we know, completion is the act of striving against another force for the purpose of achieving dominance or attaining a reward or goal, or out of imperative such as survival.

Proper competition is definitely good for our society. Because it is the principle of the nature as Darwin puts it. Without competition with other species, there may not be the human being. Without competition with other tribes, maybe we are now still leading a primitive life, no civilization, no technology, even no language. Thanks to the rough circumstance, we human struggled and become more and more powerful, so we can survive and eventually thrive.

In modern society, proper competition benefits our society as well. For individual, competition can drive us ahead by putting pressure on us. Under the stimulation, individuals can be more efficient, energetic, and creative. This is why there are countless competing systems in our society. In school, you have to compete with your schoolmates; in a company, you have to compete with your colleague. Competition is everywhere. Owning to these systems, students perform better and employees work harder. Thus, our society is pushed forward.
For groups, competition functions like a filter and pick out those good ones. Colleges of low ranking cannot appeal excellent students and famous professors, companies of relatively low efficiency, poor creativity cannot make money, factories producing commodity of poor quality cannot attract consumers, and thus, they cannot survive. Most importantly, the standard of efficiency, creativity, quality, and the ranking are formulated by comparing with other groups.

In spite of these benefits of competition, we may not ignore the detrimental aspects that competition brings us, such as the over-competition and unfairness competition. Take the television campaign in China as an example. In the 1990s, in order to capture the market some companies cut down the price of television greatly, then the other company followed them for not losing the customer. The price campaign become more and more severely, and the profit become less and less, but no one can stop it. The result of the campaign is the whole impression of the television industry. Not for the minority first took the unfairness competing artifice, there would not be the impression.

What’s more, when we are emphasizing the importance of competition, we should not forget co-operation. It has already been proved that without co-operation, the competition itself cannot serve us as well as the two together. Co-operation within a group can improve the team’s competitive power. That is why teamwork is so crucial today. Co-operation between groups is a effective way to make use of their own advantages utmost.

In sum, competition based on fairness, justice is profitable. In order to benefit our society, we should call for proper competition and watch out for unfair competition or over-competition. Meanwhile, we may not forget about the co-operation. By combining these factors, competition can then make a real contribution to the society.


3.“It is more important to allocate money for immediate, existing social problems than to spend it on long-term research that might help future generations.”
There is much discussion over the issue that whether we should allocate money for immediate, existing problems than to spend it on long-term research that isn’t so urgent but might have an influence on future. On the one hand, some people believe that the existing social problems such as poverty, diseases, environmental pollution, etc. overweight the long-term research that has little effect currently. On the other hand, some argue that the long-term research might make significant difference in the future. In my opinion, whether one has advantages over the other depends on the specific conditions. In the following discussion, I would like to present evidence favoring the former one and refuting the latter one to support may point of view.

When a large number of people are suffering from the immediate, existing social problems, I contend that it is more important to allocate money on these issues. After all, these social problems have greatly influenced people’ life and even threatened their lives. And, lives are the most precious things in the world. When a starving child looks at you hopelessly or the AIDS sufferer struggle with the Satan, most of us may not be able to still be devoting into a most-advanced science research that looks useless now. Besides, the most important goal which the human being pursuing for thousands of years is liberty, equality and happiness. So the money should be spent on the fundamental problems that stand in the way of realizing our collective dream.

But when the major of the society lead a relatively comfortable life, it is unwise to allocate all the money for the immediate, existing social problems. Problems cannot be wiped out. New problems come along after the solution of old problems. If one wants to exterminate the poverty of the world, he makes the mistake of fantastic communism which has be proven to be impossible and the long-term research would never be started. Imagine, if American had not launched the Apollo plan, what would the outer place technology which plays a key role in current life be now? No television programs, no mobile signal, etc.

What’s more, long-term research can sometimes help solve the immediate, existing social problems as well. It is well known that accidents are no rareness in the research progress, like the discovery of antibiotic. Definitely the antibiotic contributes greatly in the battle with bacterial diseases and sequentially helps solve the social problem of disease. Moreover, research progress often requires a great deal of labor force and material resources. Take our experimental laboratory for example. To finish a small research progress, we have to prepare the primary material, the reagent, the apparatus, and the detection device and so on.he laboratory cannot produce all these so we have to buy them from factories. Thus, we provide jobs for the workers of the factories. That’s another way of solving the unemployment.

In sum, on which we spend the money develops the state of the society. First we should have a right judgment of it and then to make the right decision so we can make the best use of money. It’s an art of balance that everyone would be cautious.