▶ Your Answer :
A government has a
responsibility to predict and fund a research project that has potential power
to improve people’s life. Some people may argue that a government should only
focus on a research which is anticipated useful results. However, I believe
that a research has own value and importance, so a government should not ignore
it’s potential in a long-term. Often it yields accidental benefits that could
not have been predicted before.
The first reason I
have such a view is that each research project has own value and importance
although it does not seem to have any useful results. For example, A huge
number of money was invested in the part of particle physics. At first, this
research project did not generate useful outcomes for human. Yet in the
long-term, this research starts to contribute in diverse fields and create
useful innovation and theory. If a government did not fund such research
project, the great innovation and development would not come in our world.
Furthermore, many
great innovation and discovery are accidental. It’s true that scientists often
create unpredictable new products along their original research project. This
is a byproduct. The NASA space program originally pursues exploring space.
Surprisingly, this program produces many useful byproducts such as filtering
water and improving satellite function. In the field of genetics, for example,
the human genome project intended to produce a map of the human genome. Year
later, we are using this research to develop gene therapies for cancer and
other diseases.
In conclusion, we
should not discard a research proposal just because if offers no immediate
benefit. Nobody could determine the potential of a research project before it
had developed completely. |