Friday, 14 January 2011

Harrington Bergeron

1. I think if Vietnam goes extreme with the idea of communism, which means everyone has to be equal, then the country wouldn't be perfect. We need competition in order to develop, but since equality is the main rule, we can't develop and we'll stay either poor or normal forever.
2. The laws that I would create would be:
+ Everyone will have equal rights, or the people who treats other people differently will have to pay a fine.
+ Equal benefits from the society. Like everyone should be able to get education anywhere they want, health care...
3. If I was able to help people who were mentally, physically and socially to "catch up", I'd do it by giving them a little bit of money so that they can start something that they're good at and continue to make more money.
4. If the laws are equality for everything, the problems that might occur are people won't be able develop, and people might be lazy because they know what they'll get in the end, so they don't have to work for it. I would handle that problem by giving out a new law, which is what you work and contribute for, then you'd get what you want, like democracy.
5. I think human nature would take over because the human instincts is to compete and getting jealous easily. We see that in real life all the time, so it'd be impossible for people to follow the equality rule.
6. I have an example from a movie "The Other Guys". There were two cops, one was a skilled one and one was an office-worker cop. The skilled one was paired with the office one because he shot Derek Jetter, a baseball player. The skilled one one day didn't like working with his partner because all they do were office work, so he got mad and fought with his partner, just like Harrison did in the dance studio.
In the movie "Tron Legacy", the world of Tron was controlled by computer machines. The citizens there were practically controlled by computer programmes, kind of like how George was controlled by mental handicap.