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发表于 2009-12-13 21:06:54
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Issue 1
I always believe that people can get benefit from those agreeing with our ideas and those who hold opposite opinions. Acutally, it is difficlut to tell from whom we can learn more, as they both provide helpful thoughts no matter from the same or different angles.
There is no doubt that we can get something from those who share the same views with us. It is easy to understand that people are more opt for accepting the opinions which are similar with which of their owns. And there are examples of handshakes from various kinds of areas, among the people who have the same believes and stand behind each others. Based on the common believes, people can discuss the possible drawbacks of their thoughts and make the solutions, then win-win situations are generated. Though the progress, the orginal opinions can be improved.
However, disagreements can also generate innovations, not just causing stress, as the author said. Although there may be some conflicts in thoughts among the people who have converse views deeply rooted in their minds, the comflicts can be the sources of new ideas. The various kinds of discuss and debates, for example, are ususlly reagred effective ways to find the solutions of some tough problems. In fact, the disagreeement is another way to broaden our horizon, so that people can think about the issues roundly from different aspects.
In addition, if the opinions have some faults in the foundatmental knowledge, the reasonal disagreements can help us avoid going further in the wrong direction. There are numerous examples in the history. When the new and innovative opinion that gastritis are caused by bacteria was made public, few medical scholars accepted it was the truth, but this seemed odd idea was right and was accepted by the public gradually.
Furthermore, whether the stress coming from those who have different ideas from ours would necessarily inhibit learning? The answer is wrong. Even through the debates we still hold our own viewpoints, the disagreements from the others will surely urge us to find additional documents to approve our opinions, from which we can have a deeper understanding about the question on which we argue with the others.
Overall, we have to be faced with disagreements from others, no matter in the fields of science, politics, or bussiness. The key element lies in how we cope with the contradiction. Only with a modest attribute can we learn from the others.
Argument 1
Although the result of the plan sounds encouraging, we have to think twice before we take action to build a new store in Plainsville. And after careful examination, it is not difficult to find out that both the evidence and the reasoning are problematic.
To begin with, the reasoning and suggestion are based on the previous experience that our stores are more profitable if the nearby residents pay attention to healthy lives. Whereas there is no evidence to further support that the success of these stores are due to the lifestyles of the residents. We may wonder: Whether there are less competitors in these areas and the consumers have to buy our products as no more choices are available, or there are some other characteristics of our chain stores attract the consumers, such as lower price? If these are the cases, we certainly cannot contribute the success of the stroes in these areas to the residents. And we cannot assert that we will benefit much from the new store in Plainsville.
Secondly, let’s focus our eyes on the business circumstance in Plainsville. Our vice president assumes that the merchants report is reliable and the popularity of running shoes and exercise clothing is an evidence that health food and other health-related products will also be popular there. But there are two points we are suspicious with. The first one is whether the report is valid and accurate, if the report was not gived by authorized institution, maybe the report is not reliable. And the other one is we cannot make sure our products can ben accepted by the public even if the running shoes and exercise cloths are really well sold. It is perhaps that the residents just like exercise, and are not fond of other health-related products.
In addition, there is no close relationship between our business with that of the local health club. The success of weight training and aerobics classes can just indicate that more people prefer to taking exercise, but can not tell us that our products will also be popular.
To conclude, the suggestion of our vice president is very well-grounded, and we should not be hasty to bulid a new store in Plainsville just according to the current evidence.
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