61High-profile awards such as the Nobel Prize are actually damaging to society because they suggest that only a few people deserve such recognition."
Are the high-profile awards such as the nobel prize really damaging to the society, as the author claims? My answer is no. To propel the development of the society and excite the aspiration of people work, some high-profile awards are needed. And we have to admit that there are really some persons deserving to these great honor.
In the world, some scientists, artists, writer and so on make great effect on the development of the society. Thanks to the invention of light, the human say goodbye to the dark forever. Thanks to the discovery of gene, people know more and more about themselves. Without the hard work and genial idea of Einstein , the three laws about locomotion are still not known now and without the discovery of Darwin about the evolution of organism , there is still no reasonable scientific explanation for the problem where are the human from and how they appear. To honor these great work of people , giving the high-profile awards is a suitable way and it can also express the thanks of people of the whole world to their devotion.
High-profile awards can incite people to work, to think and to pursue as a perfect goal ahead and to some extent these money can also help the people getting this awards better worker in future. High-profile award are acting as an incitement alluring people to join in and compete with each other which will bring more achievement and better results in research or work. On the other hand, we have to admit that some study work are lack of the attention of government and people. Without the help and the incitement of these high-profile awards , few people will devote themselves in these work and some valuable progress may be suspended because of lacking of money.
If we sharing these awards bonus with all the people, easily to get the result that although it is a large amount , every people just get so little money that it can not help to solve any problem or advance the living level of people. We suppose that a high profile awards for biology science and medicine about a million dollars is not awarded to a biology scientist or a doctor, but shared by a million people. If it is so, one person just gets one dollar which is only the cost of hamburger. If it is not so , possibly this doctor who get the awards get discovery a new medicine which will save so many people’s lives. It is easy to make a justification that which way is better and more appropriate to cost these money, on few men or a lot of people.
To sum up, high-profile awards as an incitement and a perfect goal to the people are making great effect on the development of society. With the help of awards , there are more inventions appear and more and more people devote themselves to the science ,arts and so on.