Issue31 【0906G 文以载道三月四月小组】2.3作业 by NormalFuJen

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ISSUE31
"Money spent on research is almost always a good investment, even when the results of that research are controversial."

提纲：
  大体同意，但有一些小的反对
1：投资于科研是好的。因为人类进步主要是通过研究实现的
2：有些投资的利益不是立刻能见到的，需要长时间考验。
3：但是有些科研明显是偏向的，不利的，如战争之类的。

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The speaker claims that money spent on research is almost always a good investment, regardless of the controversial results of some speculative researches. In my view of point, I fundamentally agree with the broad assertion that investment in research is generally good investment, except those research obviously doing harm to we human beings.

Money spent on research is generally money well invested as research is the main way we explore the unknown world to answer our questions, to solve the enduring problems troubled us for a long history. Maybe the discovery of the law of gravity is a paradigmatic example to illustrate this viewpoint. After spending a lot of time examining the reason why apple fall downwards, Newton succeeded in discovering the law of gravity, which is widely used in the classic physics to illustrate the nature of phenomenon, such as why the moon travels around the earth, and why we human beings are living on the ground but not in the sky. Moreover, it is the hard research of scientists that helps human beings succeed in the fight against the fatal diseases. Through the remorseless hard work of hundreds of thousands of scientists, Smallpox vaccine was discovered to help people immune from the deadly virus. Even now scientists are still trying to find ways to protect people from AIDS, which, if succeeds, would bring blessing to people all over the world.

Those researches, no immediate benefits but with potential benefits, also should be supported, considering the fact that research is to explore the unpredictable and uncharted territory. Research is not a process of examining the fields which have been discovered yet, on the contrary, it is to dig the unknown world with no idea what results would be found in the end. Perhaps Fleming neither have the idea of the effect of Penicillin in dealing with infections caused by bacteria when he discovered it in his lab, nor got to know how it saves hundreds of thousands of lives in the future. Roentgen also did not know the application of X-ray when he firt discovered the curious light which could penetrate human body without doing any harm to human. In a word, the researches with potential benefits should also be supported considering its application in improving the level of people's lives and alleviating people's sufferings.

However, investments in such researches, with few or even no benefits to human beings but a lot of harms, as weapons of mass destruction are not good. One apt illustration of this point involves the development of nuclear weapons. This kind of research has nothing meaningful but serves to kill thousands of people in a war, leaving the cities down to the ruins and even more people homeless. The end result is all nations are struggling to find the way to create nuclear weapons in the excuse of protecting themselves, leaving people in the world in the danger of suffering from nuclear weapons. The research focusing on Human Cloning is another field bringing controversy as it creates a lot of abnormal embryos by reconstructing the genes of the embryos, without considering the disastrous consequences if such reconstruction fails in human body.

In sum, the speaker's assertion is generally correct if the research invested is that with obvious and immediate benefits or potential benefits. However, if the research has obvious harm to human, in my view of point, is should not be supported any more.