<p>Assignment: Is it necessary to make mistakes, even when doing so has negative consequences for other people? Plan and write an essay in which you develop your point of view on this issue. Support your position with reasoning and examples taken from your reading, studies, experience, or observations.</p>
<p>The term "mistake" alludes to an avoidable act that holds detrimental consequences which could possibly harm the "actor" and his or her surrounding accomplices. The very complexion of the word suggests that a mistake is avoidable and unnecessary. Erronenous actions are completely avertible and unrequired, and such is reflected in classic literature and distance history. </p>
<p>An appropriate example of how unintentional blunders are unnecessary is presented in the Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle. In the classic novel, the protagonist, John (or "Jonah"), ventures to Ilium, New York to investigate the Hoenikkers and ice-nine for his book. The Hoenikker family gained fame after the fictional Nobel laureate Felix Hoenikker, father of Franklin, Newton, and Angela, developed the atomic bomb, a nuclear weapon responsible for the astronomical devastation in Hiroshima, and ice-nine, a secret weapon of mass destruction that freezes anything of the liquid state at room temperature. The devoted writer Jonah eventually grows more interested in the Hoenikker family's past and ventures off with them to San Lorenzo, an isolated country plagued with an impecunious society. San Lorenzo is home to an odd religion called Bokonism and a bizarre dictoator named "Papa" Monzano. At the time of Jonah's arrival, "Papa" is already sick and feeble. Because of his cancer illness, Monzano passes the leadership of the island to Franklin Hoenikker, who obtained the position through bribery with ice-nine. Jonah soon finds out all the Hoenikker children were given access to the weapon ice-nine by their father, and that the children all made ill exchanges in order to fulfill their individual desires. When such truths finally emerge, Monzano commits suicide with ice-nine in order to avoid the painful onsets of oncogenesis. His corpse freezes, and the ice consequently spreads to the rest of the world, freezing and destroying most of Earth's life within a matter of days. The cause of such destruction was due to Franklin Hoenikker's mistake, who intentionally distributed "Papa" Monzano to ice-nine in order to fulfil his selfish desire for power. If Franklin had perhaps confined ice-nine to only the Hoenikkers, then perhaps most of humankind would not have been destroyed. Franklin later even admits that his action was "stupid" and "not necessary". However, Franklin's realization came way too late for Earth's beauty had already faded beneath the sheaths of ice. Evidently, Franklin's mistake of distributing ice-nine not only proves to be unnecessary, but also destructive enough to destroy the world.</p>
<p>Great Britain's 1678 invasion of Imperial Japan is another exemplification of the avoidable nature of mistakes. When Britain landed military troops onto Japanese beaches to invade Japan, the Great Britain inadvertently got itself into a matter larger than it anticipated. Although the suppression of the official military troops of Japan was largely successful, Japanese civilians put up a fierce resistance. Indeed, Japanese civilians were fierce and determined to keep their land and resources away from the arrogant British. One massive civlian resistance, called the Black Rebellion, eventually annhilated most of the British troops that had already landed on the Japanese islands. The ferocious resistance the Japanese put up against Great Britain in 1678 instilled consternation to all. Great Britain's wrongdoing was costly, in both men and money. Had Great Britain not invaded Imperial Japan they would not have lost 10,000 lives and incurred a massive war debt. The British invasion was entirely unecessary and could have been completed avoided. Thus, Great Britain's mistake of belligerency was an unrequired error that hurt itself more than it did Japan.</p>
<p>The evidence from literature and history both confirm that errors are not necessary and entirely avoidable. Indeed, erroneous actions only expands one's burdens and problems. Escaping such unnecessary mistakes is only way to avoid hurting yourself and others.</p>
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