Issue Practice 8

Issue: Competition is ultimately more beneficial than detrimental to society.

Our world and our society have kept developing all the time since ancient times, mostly owing to the contributions of competition of all kinds.

On the one hand, competition encourages the impetus of individuals. We can hardly imagine how our society would develop but for competition. Take school education for instance, if there were no distinctions or judgment of well-done and badly-done, students would hold no aggressive consciousness, the consequence of which is almost all the students would not be willing to study. Without commercial competition, corporations would not be apt to invent new technology, improve skills and equipment, nor would they feel like perfect their management.

As a matter of fact, considering this situation, we human beings are always taking measures to reinforce competition, in order to inspire people to produce more material and spiritual wealth and heritages to make our life more convenient and our society advanced. The most representative one is the Nobel Prize, considered the highest award in a great number of fields, on behalf of the highest accomplishment. Scientists, chemists, writers throughout the world strive to chase this prize, which, in the practice, has brought us a society that keeps on going forward.

Competition also enables people to unite together to achieve a goal. Obviously, countries compete with each other. When a state is forced into poverty and weakness, the nations are expected to get united to thrive, with everyone sparing no efforts to find outlets and work hard. Sport competition is also a typical of this. When it comes to a soccer game, the athletes will coordinate with each other without doubt.

On the other hand, however, over competition may hopefully lead to detrimental consequences. We can hardly forget the harm that the over competition of Laissez-faire capitalism brought—the price did not fluctuated automatically according to the law of value, but was controlled by giant capital corporation Trusts. This led to a disorder in the market, the result of which emphasized the necessity of the control of government.

To sum up, in order to make our society develop in balance and smoothly, keep competition in an appropriate range is essential. Whether competition is beneficial or detrimental depends on whether humans are competing appropriately or not.
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