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part of the book that I want to talk about is when the group of blind men took control
over the food supply and basically the rest of the institute as a result.
Although this group did some pretty terrible things, and cause the rest of
institute to go into mayhem because of it, they also did some pretty good
things as well. While the food deliveries stopped coming to the institute, the
group was able to stretch out the supplies. Also, earlier in the book, the
supplies were not distributed fairly; some ate more than their share while some
did not have anything to eat at all. When the group took over, everyone got the
same amount of supplies and no one was left out. So even though the group did
some pretty terrible things, they also helped out the institute.
Now,
while this real world example may shock basically everyone, just hear me out on
this one. The Nazi party also did some extremely terrible things, but they also
did benefit the world in some ways. I don’t really need to go into detail about
the bad things that they did, everyone knows about those. One thing that they
did that was positive though was German engineering. So much of the world
around us would not be possible without the engineering advancements that were
created by the Germans. Another thing is that the Nazis had a pretty decent
plan for the world in terms of dividing up the work fairly amongst everyone, a representative
counsel for the world, and plenty of other things. The problem with the Nazi
party was how they went about achieving this vision, by creating a world war
and the holocaust, as well as that the vision only involved a “master race”
instead of everybody.
I never really thought of the benefits that these horrible people brought, but I guess that makes the entire situation even more dystopian. Very interesting topic, I like how you brought it up.
ReplyDeleteYou bring up a good point. While the good can in no way outweigh the bad, it's interesting that you point out the fact that there's a flip side to every coin.
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