Monday, February 14, 2011

Compromise

A compromise is a agreement reached by mutual concessions. It requires one to bend the law to achieve the greatest good. A compromise can be on anything that people wished to have an agreement on and it can be made by anybody only if both parties feel that the conditions are acceptable. In a compromise, it usually requires one to sacrifice something (e.g. their principle or the law) to achieve an agreement which both parties can benefit from. Compromises are usually very interesting as you can sometimes see people going against their beliefs, teachers breaking school rules or even lawyers bending the law to benefit himself or his client.

Our world is filled with compromises. Without compromises, people will be simply following their morals and behaving according to rules. If this happens, the world would be boring and there will never be surprising discoveries or achievements happening all around us. In our daily lives, compromise is very essential to allow us to complete tasks. This is because in modern world, tasks and obstacles cannot be easily completed or solved by simply following the rules. Sometimes, obstacles in lives are designed in a way such that people must learn bend the rule in order to solve them. It is like when one is being held hostage. He can actually find a way to escape by having a compromise with his kidnapper that if he let the hostage go, the hostage would reward him with something useful for the kidnapper. Of course this is just an example because no one would kidnappers would simply accept compromises with someone they do not trust at all.

3 Comments:

At February 27, 2011 at 8:51 PM , Blogger Ming Chin said...

I agree with you that our world is filled with comprommises. Without compromises, the world would indeed be dull and boring throughout our lives. However, I am not too sure about the bending of law - I am sure there are some compromises which don't involve the bending of law. For example, a teacher can extend the deadline of an assignment for a student if he is sick, and this doesn't break any school rules/laws.

 
At February 28, 2011 at 7:12 PM , Blogger Nathan said...

I agree with Gary's point that compromises are common in this world. The modern world is no longer stuck to the rules and in this day and age, laws are simply a guideline on what is generally right or wrong. Thus, sometimes, the law can be bent if it allows for a win-win situation, and does not harm anyone too badly. This philosophy is also present in our school philosophy - 自立立人,自达达人,or win-win.

 
At March 1, 2011 at 8:45 PM , Blogger SheuXiang said...

I do not think that Gary's example on compromise would be valid. Kidnappers will never compromise with their victims. Their main aim would usually be to obtain money and most probable reason the kidnapper would the let his hostage go would be that he had already received the money. In this case, there would be no compromise made at all.

 

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