帮我拍拍--ISSUE 40

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TOPIC: ISSUE40 - "Scholars and researchers should not be concerned with whether their work makes a contribution to the larger society. It is more important that they pursue their individual interests, however unusual or idiosyncratic those interests may seem."
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TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010-8-3 9:22:19

Whether researchers should be concerned with the significance of their work is a highly controversal issue in contemporary society. Some people hold the view that researchers had better pursuit their own interests since others would not know the meaning of the experiment as researchers do while the others believe that only by examing the significance of the research can we ensure the social rescourses are well located. In my perspective, however, this is a issue which derserves a case-by-case discussion.
Reasearchers should persuit their own intersts for they have owned more specific knowledges which could bring them more eyesight and meaningful viewpoint. Take Bill Gates, the former Microsoft Executive, as an example. When he was studing at Harvard, he had a ambitious dream to bring the computer to every home. It would seem impossible at that time for the reason that a computer could take three rooms about 100m2 to hold and the price for a computer would cost one's whole life incomes. However, he belived he can do. Then he gave up his schoolship and start invent new software which may decrease the site of the computer. Under his strong
specific knowledge and hard work, he finally make personal computer purchased by almost every family. We could safely make a suspection that no one without computer knowledge could have such a eyesight.
Meanwhile, the strong desiration of researchers would help them make a fabulous contribution that ordinary people are hardly to imagine.Interest is the motivation which could help people focus more attentioin in the problem and think longer and deeper than ordinary, thus once a researcher have a strong desirartion it is more likely for him/her to find something extrordinary from the ordinary phenonmena. For example, when a little boy sit down a tree and hit by a falling apple, he thought about the reason why the apple would fall down rather than fly into the sky. If there is someone who inhibited him to think more deeply and to find the reason by himself, we could not know the classical Newton's Three Laws of Motation. Also, If someone neglected the Wartet to research the reason why the vapor could fly the cover of the box, the Industry Evolution could not be started, then we might have been lived in a dark world in nights, without lights and even convinient computer. It is the freedom for people to pursuit the interests of their own that change the world today.
However, the research should be examed by the society on the moral problem. One famous sociologist in my university once told me that once you focus on the dream you are going for, you are most probably lose the eyesight for the whole world around you. To the same token, when researchers are making their best to achieve a significant results they would probably overlook the influences the results may bring to the world. When it comes to the stem cell research, the scientists would focus the fabulous benefits of the research that sertain kind of rare diesases like anemia, hemophilia and leukimia would have a hope to cure, yet the neglect that in the process of their research the embryos are created and destroyed which violate the humanity of our society. In this circustance, the research should be under the censorship by the society.
In conclusion, the sociaty should provide the researchers and schoolars a free space to persuit their own interests and curiosity under the censorship of ordinary people in the moral permission.