Some people believe that in order to thrive, a society must put its own overall success before the well-being of its individual citizens. Others believe that the well-being of a society can only be measured by the general welfare of all its people.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position.
The opposition between individual and collective perspectives have been going back and forth in human thought from a complete schism to a complete unification, with all the middle grounds in between. As for the question of societal progress, it was not any less controversial.
For one, prosperity on a state or nation level is never a starting point. It takes lots of effort and active intervention for humans to create the system in which natural and human sources can be efficiently utilized. This would necessarily require its individuals to give up some personal rights in order for them to be part of this social contract and, hopefully, benefit from its outcomes as well. For example, they would have moral obligations that, by definition, restrict their agency to act freely.
However, once such structure is established, with all the division of labor it takes and all the variation that naturally occurs in its economic and social scale, a matter of inequality arises. This is because every state-level function, be it economy, education, or politics, must have a hierarchical structure and some sort of centralization of power that ends up as a threat for the fair and equal distribution of the collective fortunes.
Such kind of imbalance leads the privileged elite to later use the idea of the common good, or the success of society, as a mere facade to maintain the status quo, where the rest of the individuals are being used for their advantages. And hereby arises the fake opposition between the individual good and the common good, where, in fact, they should only be seen as complementary.
All in all, we believe that individual success is by no means in conflict with collective success: both can only be built upon a notion of self-control, responsibility, and loyalty.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, so, well, as for, for example, in fact, kind of, sort of
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 6.0 12.4196629213 48% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 14.8657303371 101% => OK
Relative clauses : 6.0 11.3162921348 53% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 20.0 33.0505617978 61% => OK
Preposition: 42.0 58.6224719101 72% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1505.0 2235.4752809 67% => OK
No of words: 298.0 442.535393258 67% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.05033557047 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.55969084622 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97585171627 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 215.323595506 83% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.597315436242 0.4932671777 121% => OK
syllable_count: 480.6 704.065955056 68% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 11.0 20.2370786517 54% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 27.0 23.0359550562 117% => OK
Sentence length SD: 56.3870918937 60.3974514979 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 136.818181818 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 27.0909090909 23.4991977007 115% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.72727272727 5.21951772744 129% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 5.13820224719 19% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.231284112093 0.243740707755 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0753871793036 0.0831039109588 91% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0715779152411 0.0758088955206 94% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.11930661565 0.150359130593 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0596944986837 0.0667264976115 89% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.9 14.1392134831 112% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 44.07 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.8 12.1743820225 113% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.31 12.1639044944 101% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.27 8.38706741573 111% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 100.480337079 81% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.8 11.2143820225 114% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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