It is more harmful to compromise one's own beliefs than to adhere to them.
We humans are social beings; we live in a society, follow its norms and work in summations to improve it. The society at times imposes certain responsibilities on individuals, the anomalies or the outliers are those who do not adhere to this responsibility, these responsibilities are assumed to be beneficent for everyone, the question is do they? The prompt directs to a peculiar stance, I disagree with the statement because of the reasons below.
The beliefs one possess is capricious, the source of these beliefs are often imposed on us at early stage and at times we over power them and start rejecting these beliefs. Thus, it can be seen that the beliefs one possess throughout different ages, is subject to change. Many things which we feel morally wrong or incorrect, we accept it at some later point of time. Lying is usually believed to be a bad thing at our infancy, but at instances where it is necessary to lie, we do, thus we learn that it is okay to lie, if the situation demands for it – we often tell our kids or younger siblings that Santa is real, but in fact we are well aware that it a lie. Thus, to adhere to set of beliefs is also unjustifiable means to decide, as they are always subject to change. However, one should definitely follow the beliefs they have at each stage of life. But since these changes are bound to happen we do not know – the good, the bad is thus variable across different peoples view.
Secondly, the survival may demand one to overcome these so established beliefs. At times when a person is facing a dilemma the person choses to do things which are favoring his chances of survival – vegans and many Indian caste people are strict about not eating non-veg, but if they are in a situation similar to that of “Life of Pi” they have to eat sea food for survival – thus they are in a way completely defying the established beliefs they had. Further, influencer of these beliefs is the peer groups; we cannot deny the fact that our peers influence our activities, thoughts and even practices. For instance – our work peers, of marketing tell us to make the sale at any cost, these might at times champion deceiving the client or subscribing the under privileged student for a high fee without providing discount, to promote sales, we although empathetic to it first eventually learn that we have to do it because “everyone I know is doing it”.
However, one can argue that these beliefs guide us and without them we are lost. The above point does make a strong point, but these beliefs sometimes force us to do the wrong things – “Sati” practice (burning the lady alive, if her husband is dead) in India was heralded because it was thought to be religiously right, but is it correct morally to follow it? These beliefs can be good or bad, which is again subjective – the followers or Sati did and do believe it so. But, it is wrong in every human aspect possible. Further, killing a baby fetus – It is believed across different cultures that it is okay to kill the girl if the parents feel so, they usually burn the child in the hot milk container – which is again a practice which is WRONG, but certain beliefs promote it.
From the above points it can be evident that the beliefs cannot guide us, thus just by following a certain set of belief we cannot be certain whether we are right or wrong, as it is subjective in nature. Many interpretations of these beliefs exists and with time many perish, so should we follow the ones which have survived the longest, again the answer is still subjective. “Sati” lasted for over 300 years.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'done'.
Suggestion: done
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Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
...ment because of the reasons below. The beliefs one possess is capricious, the ...
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...rn the child in the hot milk container – which is again a practice which is WRONG...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, still, thus, well, for instance, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 44.0 19.5258426966 225% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 85.0 33.0505617978 257% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 75.0 58.6224719101 128% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 12.9106741573 46% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3011.0 2235.4752809 135% => OK
No of words: 648.0 442.535393258 146% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.64660493827 5.05705443957 92% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.04537849152 4.55969084622 111% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63079583483 2.79657885939 94% => OK
Unique words: 301.0 215.323595506 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46450617284 0.4932671777 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 943.2 704.065955056 134% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 14.0 6.24550561798 224% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 1.77640449438 394% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 23.0359550562 126% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 98.0057027351 60.3974514979 162% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.863636364 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.4545454545 23.4991977007 125% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.45454545455 5.21951772744 85% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 9.0 10.2758426966 88% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 10.0 5.13820224719 195% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.103460518785 0.243740707755 42% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0437599476394 0.0831039109588 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0475960670351 0.0758088955206 63% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0654646487767 0.150359130593 44% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0318349428699 0.0667264976115 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.2 14.1392134831 108% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.28 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.05 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 122.0 100.480337079 121% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 11.8971910112 118% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.2143820225 121% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
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.