杀G小组第五次作业贴

wagner1985UID: 2838595

Issue26
The luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals.       
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.

wagner1985UID: 2838595

The development of modern time with a variety of technologies creates such a lot of convenience for humans that people in the past can hardly imagine the well-being of their descendants. That being said, some people deem that this convenient contemporary life, actually, weakene and enslaved people. In my opinion, it is not true. People in no time can lead a life that is as strong and independant as people nowadays.

To begin with, the progress of science and new technology in contemporary life make it possible for people to have a better understanding of themselves in terms of health than before. In the past century , people in fact do not know a lot about what is salubrious and what is not. Their minds are obsessed  with various superstitions and wrong ideas. All kinds of pills are created by those quack doctors. These creations are either poisonous or have no effect at all. Some people even believed that losing some blood is beneficial for their health.  It is the scientific medical research dispels people's illusion. More and more patients turn to real doctors for prescription, instead of resorting to magical  power. Scientific discovery about medical treatment told people what healthy lifestyle is and how to keep healthy. All of these knowledge cannot be easily known by the majority in society in ancient times. Without realizing doing sport is beneficial, how could people have incentive to spend tens of hours in gym ? Without sport, how could people become beefy?

Also, when it comes to independance, the contribution of contemporary life is also remarkable. In middle age, most of civilians have no choice but spending endless hours laboring and working so as to earn some trivial reward which can merely maintain their impoverished life. It is the technology that took the place of hard-working labors and made people no longer suffer from those bone-breaking and tedious works so that people do not need to work as long as before. Compared with before, people nowadays have more leisure that can be used for amusement and recreational activties. In other words, people at present are endowed with more liberty and freedom that their  predcessor can never dream of. As such, would you still believe contemporary life deprived of people's independance?

To sum up, in fact, contemporary life contributed a lot to people's strong body and independance. Without knowledge about medicine, people can by no means lead a healthy life. Without machines and instruments, people would still be occupied with laborous and boring work and work as a slave.  Therefore，contemporary time is admirable.