WOULD YOU RISK IT?

“People should undertake risky action only after they have carefully considered its consequences.”

Can we take a blunt risk? Would not it be like playing dice! In contemporary world our actions cannot be dependent on uncalculated probability of our randomness. Therefore I strongly agree that people should undertake risky action only after they have carefully considered its consequences. A calculated risk would provide us with the extremes of the result and if we can consent the worse it is always a win-win situation.

To start with let us take an example of medical sciences. There are a number of cases where the conventional treatments cannot be performed due to unknown cause of illness. However, doctors never leave the patient unattended.  Special medical research teams work for such cases to fight with the disease, by attempts to find the cause and treatment, for the present case as well as consider the future patients. The appointed medical team takes calculative risks to an extent that would not decline the present health status of patient.

In the field of business calculated risk has most significance, while investing on any commodity a business person or entrepreneur often calculate the risk involved. Calculating and considering risk gives them a better range of expected outcome gives a better picture of the contemplated action. Thus only after considering the risk involved a better action can be taken. There are many such examples of entrepreneurs and business people such as bill gates and mark zukerrberg who took calculated risk before taking actions.

Considering risk involved is not just limited to research and business, it also has implication in politics and government. Before passing a bill or amending any law government often consider the reaction of its people. Only if the reaction subjected to welfare and peace of the general people the government takes action. History is evident that the risk taken by government without considering the consequences had created pandemonium amongst its people.

To conclude I concede with the statement “People should undertake risky action only after they have carefully considered its consequences.” It is evident that this approach is practiced in many fields from research to business. Thus, the statement is it is a better approach to undertake risky action only after they have carefully considered its consequences, it always provide us with range of outcome, If the lowest of range or the worst of outcome can be accepted the action can be undertaken.

TECHNOLOGY TIMELINE

“The luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life prevent people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals.”

The contemporary life is all about technology. These days human possess technology to make life easy. This is done by the help of the changes in the way human being employ their energy, there has been a significant shift in the monotonous manual work,  that was previously accomplished by human themself, to the machines. This development has in turn made life full of luxuries and conveniences. Thus, in my view it has not hampered people from developing into truly strong and independent individuals, it indeed have provided time to get involved in more productive tasks.

The luxuries and conveniences of contemporary life is a product of human success. The need of luxuries and conveniences raised when, most of the time of people was consumed into doing the daily chores of monotonous jobs. Let us take an example of basic conveniences of washing machines and dishwasher these machines have reduced human effort and made time available for other jobs. The time saved here can be employed to some more innovative work which better fits the lifestyle of contemporary individuals.

The issue in hand claims that the luxuries and conveniences prevent people from developing truly strong and independent individuals. However, it does not take into account that the definition of truly strong and independent individuals changes with time. In old days the alpha male was one who was physically stronger and could produce equally stronger offspring and was a desired suitor. But, over the time this has changed man with a stable job is considered as a better suitor in matrimonial prospective. Similarly, now-a-days the truly strong and independent individuals are one who works on bases of contemporary lifestyle and gain professional success.

Every technology or innovation has its pros and cons. one ideal example is nuclear power, it has the potential to fulfill entire energy needs of the word and also possess the power to destroy it. It is the way this technology is used that matters. Likewise the luxury that this contemporary life style provides can cause some serious health concerns due to lack of required physical work. However, recent development on gym and other exercise sources can take care of that all. Thus the need of physical work required on daily basis can be done in gym in a new and recreation manner!

Lastly with the conveniences and luxury contemporary life has opened new scopes for development and has made individual flexible enough to take out time for other activities to fit in contemporary life and live a healthy life.

PUBLIC OPINION

“Some people believe that in order to be effective, political leaders must yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise. Others believe that the most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives.”

The present issue portrays two different aspects of a political leader. The first one is "Political leaders must yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise." and the second one claims " The most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives." both the prospective are presenting opinion on an ideal leader. Leader is someone who leads people and takes society to a better level by understanding the present condition and problems and guiding a society to optimize its resource and power.

Democracy is selecting a political leader by the people on the basis of majority. People select a candidate who they relate to in aspects like political, social, moral and cultural grounds. In present times of democracy, any political leader should consider the opinion of majority while taking up any issue in hand. The basic idea of democracy is to make the member of any society more actively involved in social and political issues. As we encounter during election political parties present their opinion on certain issue, to make their party’s policies clearer. On the basis of their opinion we cast our votes, to make sure our involvement in the regime.

Since public opinion is considered by the opinion of the majority of people and majority of people, also moral and cultural principal of any particular region or societies generally the same amongst its people. In the first opinion, to be effective, political leaders must yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise, is putting up principle on the stalk and taking up public opinion as the up most priority of the leader. However the two (i.e. majority or public opinion and the principal of leading party) go hand in hand.  This opinion therefore, is self-contradicting. While considering any issue the opinion of the majority of people would be based on the principle that majority follows.

The second opinion, the most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives, is an autocratic way of leading up a society. In democratic society the leader has to be flexible. Contemporary time is the era of democracy and any political leader must have the ability to take public opinion into consideration while taking up any issue in hand. This way the principal of the society would not be ignored.

Thus any political leader in democratic world should consider public opinion as it is the source of his power. Political leaders are elected by the public to represent them in the social and political affairs.