ISSUE 16

TOPIC: ISSUE16 - "Although many people think that the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life are entirely harmless, in fact, they actually prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals."
WORDS: 463 TIME: 01:13:29 DATE: 2008-3-11 15:21:42

The arguer proclaims that luxuries and conveniences today actually prevent multitude from becoming really strong and independent. In my view, on the one hand, the luxuries and easy life would make people decay; on the other hand, luxuries and conveniences would encourage the masses to be assiduous to pursue better life. Consequently, it is important to justify functions of expensive goods and easy life created by modern technology fairly.

In the first place, luxuries and conveniences indeed bring harmful impacts to individuals and society to some extend. In some cases, some people, especially those who grow up in wealthy family circumstances, sometimes completely hinge on luxuries. Therefore these people fail to live on their own when they grow up. A current vivid example involves a rich family in my town. The son of this family began to spend innumerous money even since his birth. Moreover, the son would not learn knowledge by heart, since he does not worry about living. Nevertheless, as his parents died of disease not long ago, the son runs out of his family's fortune eventually, and he can not find a job as a result of his inability.

Furthermore, the luxuries and conveniences may also play a key role in phenomenon of a society's corruption. Officers of government may easily indulge in achievement they have gained, without actively engaging in innovations of improving standard of living to a higher level. Consequently, the country will be beaten down, or the government will be overthrown by populace. History is replete with examples of society's decay. For example, officials of Qing, a period during China's history, were satisfied with their accomplishment. They did not work out any policy benefit for the masses in the last five years of their governing time. Power of the country was weakened; hence officials did not withstand foreigners' intrusion and were beaten down.

However, in the second place, luxuries and conveniences can show the positive influences on society at the same time. Because luxuries will bring great content to individuals and easy life will ease the tension of multitude, and because people are mostly profit-driven, populace are eager to create conditions to enjoy their fantastic life, therefore standard of social living will be conspicuously improved. Once the masses have experienced the apparently differences between conveniences life and poor life, they will surely keep on ameliorating the status of living.

In summary, not only would the luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life induce negative affections to society and individuals, but also easy life and expensive goods would induct multitude to pursue better life. Of course, merely the positive influences reconcile with what people have been expecting for thousands of years. Therefore, government should pay more attention to next generation's education and act as a pioneer in the mainstream.