Three acceptable outrages - Zhiyuan Zhang

Tobacco is absolutely an accepted outrages in present world. First of all, smoking is unhealthy. The truth that cigarette would cause tons of diseases like lung cancer has been proved and accepted by many people and organization, whatever official or unofficial. Secondly, smoking is an immoral activity because the second-handed smoking may also cause some physical harm to the people who do not smoke and the terrible smell will also bother them. Last but not least, the process of producing cigarette waste a lot of resource that we can use to solve problems but not manufacture problems. For example, the plantation tobacco will occupy some land rich of material that we can use to produce crops like wheat and corn and solve the serious starvation in some place on Earth. And also we can make billions of wealth if millions of people are not focusing on manufacturing and transporting cigarette, which absolutely is an object that worth nothing.

Increasing economy by constructing more buildings is another outrage. In the 1980's Japan, the government decided to make some policies that encouraged building market in order to make sure the economy kept growing. The reason is pretty easy: the process of constructing a building would not only benefit itself, but also do favor to industries in other areas like steel, cement, wood and furniture. If people build more house, this long link will make sure that tons of business will also benefits. However, this kinds of opinion is very short-sight and ignore some shortages of this method. Firstly, the requirements of apartments is limited because people will not buy and keep several houses, which means that this method cannot last long. Maybe economy will increase quickly like you give it a stimulant, buy years later there will only be disadvantages left. Next, encouraging constructing building will raise the price of apartment, which will cause a serious damage to people's life quality. Many people in 1980's Japan cannot purchase a house and they could only make loan, which they had to pay back with their salary of dozens of years in future. It was ridiculous that if you transfer all the buildings in Tokyo into to money as their price, the amount is large enough to purchase the whole America. Finally, buildings is not something relevant to creativity and technology. A country inspiring building may have a beautiful GDP, not will never become a great country.

The final outrage I want to talk about is people have to pay for the health-care. Health-care, as a social service, is believed by many people that hospital should be totally funded by government like army, police and fire department but not the patients. However, few countries in this world have set up free health-care system. As a result, poor people in many countries have to give up curing because they do not have enough money to pay the hospital.