Thursday, October 1, 2015
I believe competition pushes us to our limits. With complete equality, comes mediocrity. If everyone is a winner no one will push them selves to reach their maximum potential or even know what potential they carry. Similar to Harrison in the short story "Harrison Burgeron" by Kurt Vonnegut, I am opposed of living in a society with complete equality, because it takes away from individuality and allows everyone to live life giving their bare minimum. It is important for children to compete with each other to prepare for he real world. I believe in rather praising children for all being equally "perfect", we need them to be exposed to failure in order to survive in the real world. Without failure, their is no strife to be the winner. Shielding children from this matter in today's society gears kids away from the feeling of winning by making everyone the winner. So how will we really push ourselves to victory if we don't know what it feels like?
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I really agree with what you have to say. Failure is necessary for people to learn how to make the best of their mistakes.
ReplyDeleteThe idea that with complete equality comes mediocrity is very true. Recognizing that if people don't push themselves they will never know their true potetential brings up many great points and you seem to have addressed them all. Keep it up Sarah I love what you have written!
ReplyDeleteI like a lot of the points you make here. Remember to proofread before you publish as there are several errors in the entry.
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