People who are the most deeply committed to an idea or policy are also the most critical of it.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
At first glance this statement seems paradoxical. How can people who are deeply committed to an idea or policy be critical of it? I disagree with this statement; I believe that people who are deeply committed to an idea or policy are not critical of it.
When an individual strongly believes in an idea, they tend to be blinded by the strong belief that they have towards it. In most instances, believers refuse to acknowledge and hear out other people’s criticism of that idea or policy. In such a scenario, there is little to no chance that they themselves are critical towards the policy that they so strongly believe in. For example, with increasing gun violence in the U.S.A, many people are voicing out their opinions against the second amendment and calling for a need to modify the current gun laws. However, the NRA and most pro-gun activists refuse to hear these criticisms. Whenever there is a mass shooting, the tendency to blame shifts towards anything but the guns. These pro-gun activists are so deeply committed to the second amendment that regardless of the gravity of the situation during mass shootings, they refuse to acknowledge that there is a need to change it i.e. be critical of the policy.
A similar situation can also arise when people have deep-rooted sentiments and religious beliefs. Listening to the values preached to them when growing up and having a large religious support base such as a church or other religious institution, people are so enrooted in these beliefs; they are convinced that their beliefs are true. As a result, they find it difficult to criticise these ideals even if these ideals need to be changed to suit the current 21st century mindset. For example, a religious leader may not support gay marriage despite acknowledging that everyone is equal in the eyes of god.
However, in some situations, people who are deeply invested in an idea or policy would want to perfect it by criticizing it repeatedly. In doing so, they would view the pros and cons of this idea or policy and take all factors into consideration to ensure that they have an answer for any questions or concerns the opponents put forward. These people are open-minded in their thinking in that they are able to acknowledge possible flaws in their ideas and think about concerns others might have. In politics this is quite common. For example, when Narendra Modi banned the 1000 and 2000 rupee notes in India, he had revised and re-revised the policy so thoroughly before putting it forward that when opponents voiced their concerns he was able to placate them.
In summary, most people who are deeply committed to an idea or policy are not critical of it as they believe in it strongly. Those who are critical are those who can foresee any concerns opponents might have and want to be able to have answers to these concerns.
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- People who are the most deeply committed to an idea or policy are also the most critical of it.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In deve 66
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 429, Rule ID: SENTENCE_WHITESPACE
Message: Add a space between sentences
Suggestion: A
...with increasing gun violence in the U.S.A, many people are voicing out their opin...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, so, for example, in summary, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 27.0 19.5258426966 138% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 23.0 11.3162921348 203% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 59.0 33.0505617978 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 9.0 12.9106741573 70% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2377.0 2235.4752809 106% => OK
No of words: 490.0 442.535393258 111% => OK
Chars per words: 4.85102040816 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.70488508055 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.59359493635 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 215.323595506 104% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.455102040816 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 755.1 704.065955056 107% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 23.0359550562 100% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.5477772333 60.3974514979 92% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.19047619 118.986275619 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.3333333333 23.4991977007 99% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.42857142857 5.21951772744 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 5.13820224719 175% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211899426211 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0839365894369 0.0831039109588 101% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0967755898537 0.0758088955206 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.15281987662 0.150359130593 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0926449189252 0.0667264976115 139% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 56.59 48.8420337079 116% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.15 12.1639044944 92% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.97 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 99.0 100.480337079 99% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 11.2143820225 100% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.7820224719 68% => The average readability is low. Need to imporve the language.
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.