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发表于 2004-12-26 01:08:52
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61. "High-profile awards such as the Nobel Prize are actually damaging to society because they suggest that only a few people deserve such recognition."
What is called "high-profile awards"? Those are the awards that give the people who have got the greatest achievement in the field they work on. According to the definition, high-profile awards can be only given to a very small group of people, and most of them cannot receive the awards. Then some people argue that are such awards damaging to society because most people cannot get them? This question depends on people how to explain the signification of the words "damaging to society".
With which premise when only a few people receive high-profile awards, they are damaging to the society? In fact, the view is true only when the following effects happen: One is people who have not receive high-profile awards lose the impetus to do the further work. The other is that people who have not received the awards lose heart and do not feel confidence again. Luckily, such side effects of high-profile awards, to most of people, do not happen. (Of course, we have to admit that there are a few people who do not receive the awards suffer from the side effect, and give up their work. But this small group of people only takes very small percentage, and do not damage the society.)
Earning awards is not the purpose for people to do their work. That means awards are not their impetus. Well, what is the real impetus of these people? To earn money? To make fun? Both of them are not. Individual interests and contribution to the society is the real one. For example, there are about one hundred athletes to participate in the 100 meters race in each Olympic Games, and each of them know that there is only one golden medal. It is their interests in the game, and the honor of as a deputy of their country to take part in such Games that is their impetus to stand on the playground; even they know 99 percentages of them will be kicked out. Not only in sports, in other work fields it is the same. Since the awards are not the purpose for people to do their work, of course, they will not lose impetus when they are not given high-profile awards.
People who do not receive high-profile awards will not lose heart and their confidence. Awards are not the only judgment to evaluate whether people have done good work. People will be recognized when their work is better than they did before; People will be praised when their work make contribution to the society. Since awards are not the only judgment, people can gain recoganization through forms, except awards, and they will get confidence to go on further work. So they are not damaging to society, although high-profile awards are only given a few people.
high-profile awards are not only not damaging the society, but they also benefit it. In one side, people who have got the high-profile awards will keep on their work because of the confidence, the awards and the honor given by high-profile awards. With confidence, they can go on with more complex work; with awards, they can use more advanced equipment to help they go further; with honor, they fell responsibility to make greater contribution. In other side, people who do not receive high-profile awards will study from the people who have received awards, and with the winners' experience those people will develop quickly. In addition, such defeated experience will simulate them to spend more to catch up with the winners.
In addition, the fact illustrates that high-profile awards have not damaged the society. Take the science field for example, since 1901 in which the first people who got the Nobel Prize, there were only less than 600 hundred scientists have received it in one century, While there were thousands of scientists in that century who were not given Nobel Prize. During that century, the society was damaged? Of course not. Not only the society was not damaged, but it also developed with a fantastic speed.
This anxiety that high-profile awards are damaging to society is needless, in stead high-profile awards not only have not damaged the society, but they also benefit it, and they would be insisted. |
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