TOPIC: ISSUE37 - "In most societies, competition generally has more of a negative than a positive effect."
　　WORDS: 535 TIME: 1:30:00 DATE: 2007-7-27
　　Competition exists almost everywhere in most societies. When it comes to the effect of competition, there are always a host of different opinions held by different people in different fields. Does competition has more of a negative than a positive effect in most societies? As is concerned in every aspect, competition has both a positive effect and a negative one, and in fact, competition serves as a double-edged sword in general. However, in most societies, competition has more of a positive than a negative effect.
　　To begin with, competition contributes to the progress in most societies; filled with competition everywhere, the societies develop faster and better. Examples are all around us.
　　UCompetition makes factories promote manufacturing efficiency; competition gives workers a higher spirit to work; competition accelerates the pace of everyday life. It is through competition that outstanding people come out of a campaign; it is through competition that higher efficiency substitutes the lower one. Even in the process of scientific research, were there no competition among Watson, Crick, Pauling, Franklin and Wilkins, etc.
　　how can you imagine that the double helix of DNA structure could be discovered during that a short time period? U Competition is demanded and cannot be obviated. In light of this, no one could deny the importance of competition; neither could they afford the disappearance of competition in any aspect.
　　While as a double-edged sword, competition also causes in general a host of problems that may harm the societies. UFor example, in colleges and universities, competition for higher grades may stimulate to urge students' ambition in the process of study, but such competition increasingly exposes its negative effects on the quality of learning.
　　Pursuing higher grades, students may pay too much attention to the score of tests or examinations which are still the main methods to check the outcome of learning, and as a result of it, they fail to practise their real ability of learning or solving problems. Moreover, heating competition for higher grades may cause extremely mental and psychological problems which will seriously undermine students' interests and learning ability. UIt is more or less the same with competition in other aspects in societies.
　　However, even though competition serves as a double-edged sword, it has more of a positive than a negative effect under most circumstances.
　　In fact, everything in general has a limit itself. If people break the limit, some damage may occur, and when people act below the limit, they benefit from it. UAdmittedly, some people may go to extremes to compete by lawless means, leading to competition chaos or other social problems that harm our societies. But most participants in a competition still comply with the competition rules, because the lawless competitors will fail in the long run after all.U Viewed in this fashion, most people will choose to compete in a licit and proper way, which will benefit more than harm the society in general.
　　In summary, while competition has not only a positive effect but also a negative one in many aspects in societies, it benefits more. Every able man with genuine competence and capability should make use of the positive effect of competition, and at the same time limit the negative influence of it.