80. Nations should suspend government funding for thearts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.
88. Claim: Nations should suspend government funding forthe arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed.
Reason: It is inappropriate—and, perhaps, even cruel—touse public resources to fund the arts when people's basic needs are not beingmet.
Generally, arts are treated as superstructure of asociety’s construction, and thus at times are thought to be superfluous in time of depression. Controversy surrounds the question of whether nations should suspend the financial support for arts when significant numbers of their citizens are hungry or unemployed. In my perspective, it is reasonable that governments diminish funding on arts when the situation is not promising;however, arts are indispensable in a society and what is the most important for governments is to find out the culprit behind unemployment rather than unwisely press suspension on the development of arts.
Admittedly, arts are not necessary for the majority of people in a nation, and hence it is actually rational for governments to decrease investments on arts when there are more people to be salvaged. The majesty of art museums is not able to fill the poor’s hungry belly, and exquisite cameo is never at the unemployed men’s hand. Arts cannot save the impecunious,and adequate funding flooding toward arts would merely incite the discontent inside them. Thus, it is wise for governments to adjust their funding from arts to the focus of social problems when depression.
Nevertheless, arts are indispensable for the reason that they are an important part of a society as a whole. At individual level, arts can render relaxation and spiritual entertainment. Without arts accompanying,individuals would emerge in unfailingly work and pressure and it is possible that everyone becomes anxious and rude to each other. At national level, anation without arts is akin to a tree without its root, in that arts represent the essential spirit of a nation during a certain span. This is true considering the various types of arts as novels, paintings, and music.
Thus, arts should be supported, and there are some fundamental reasons. Firstly, in view of taxation governments impose on people, they are responsible to buttress arts if most of its people want arts to be supported.Furthermore, arts are not that of use, in terms of employment and profits,compared with industries or agriculture; however, it cannot be denied that artsalso exert impact on economical improvement to a certain extent.
What is the most important for governments is that rather than suspending funding on arts, the real culprit behind the depression, such as the imbalance of the economical structure, the inflation rate of themarkets. In time of prosperity, hungry people and unemployment are also existent. There might be other factors more decisive than the existence ofarts. Governments are in duty to find out these factors and boost the economy of the society.
On balance, diminishing funding on arts when depression is both understandable and wise to some degree; however, arts are significant in asociety and not supposed to be suspended totally. The point for governments isto find out the real reasons of unemployment rather than press suspension onthe development of arts. | 
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发表于 2012-3-7 21:00:27
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