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COMPETITION OR CO-OPERATION
Some people claim that competition is more important than co-operation in the present-day society. I don't agree with them. I think co-operation is more important than competition because not only people can fulfill today's complex and high-tech work better by co-operating with each other, but also co-operation helps to form fine public morals in the present-day society.
    First, co-operation can produce better work effect. Now most work is more difficult and complicated than before. It requires all types of knowledge in different fields. Even the person who is proved to be outstanding in fierce competition can't do it only by himself. After all, one's ability is limited. He can't master all the knowledge in the world. In this case, people had better co-operate; and each one applies knowledge in his major. However, if people compete against each other, work can just be done. The quality of work is uncertain.
    Second, co-operation can do good to the forming of a united and fraternal social environment. When people co-operate, they have the same goal. In the process of overcoming difficulties, each of them uses his own merit to compensate for others' defects.  And they encourage each other to strive for their common aim. By and by, their relationship becomes close and friendly. By contrast, competition causes egoism. The final result of competition is to sort out the only best one by eliminating all the others. So this makes every competitor hope that he himself is better than any other. Unavoidably he won't help others make progress because he's afraid that he will be surpassed. In this way, he tends to think only for himself, not for others at all. Egoism appears.
    In a word, co-operation is more important than competition in the present-day society for the sake of good work effect and high moral atmosphere.