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It is only knowledge produced with difficulty that we truly value. To what extent do you agree with this statement? (1)

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It is only  knowledge  produced with difficulty that we truly  value .  
To what extent do you  agree  with this  statement ?  
Session: May  2017  
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It is only knowledge produced with difficulty that we truly value.  
To what extent do you agree with this statement?  
  
     To be knowledgeable is to have an  understanding  about how things are and how things 
work . Knowledge is the combination of facts, information, and/or skil s that when put 
together create a  whole   picture  enabling us to ful y  understand  a  subject  or situation. We, 
as ordinary people, can acquire knowledge either from our  first   hand   experiences  
(personal knowledge) or from education and research (shared knowledge). Difficulty 
depends on how much effort or skil  must be implemented for the information to be 
acquired, and the value of  something   lies  in it's  importanceusefulness  or worth. We al  
value  different  things in our life, we are more likely to value things that   benefit  us and, 
thus, not  real  y value the things that are of no benefit to us. If it’s only knowledge produced 
with difficulty that we truly value then how do we value knowledge that is easily produced? 
How  could  knowledge that is produced with difficulty be of  little  value to us?  These  
knowledge  questions  wil  be addressed using  examples  from the different areas of 
knowledge to help show the  differential   between  knowledge value and the difficulty 
required to obtain it.  
     I believe that knowledge that is obtained with difficulty is more  valuable  when it  comes  
to human  sciences . Easily produced  scientific  knowledge tends to have little value and it’s 
because scientific knowledge is mainly  discovered  and not everything wil  be discovered at 
once. First theories are  formed   based  off of existing facts and information and then 
scientists  look  for  evidence  to  support  their theories. Sometimes they succeed and 
sometimes they don’t. In the  case  of the  discovery  of DNA structure and  function  it  took  
countless trials and errors  before   Watson  and Crick were  able  to propose the  double  helix. 
To accomplish that they relied heavily on the discoveries that  other  scientists had made 
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before  them . Mainly on  Rosalind  Franklin’s X-ray diffraction images of DNA.1 The 
knowledge obtained took a lot of effort from many different scientists along with a lot of 
time to produce. The information is very useful and it is  found  to be very valuable,  without  
the hardship and  dedication  from those scientists we would not have this knowledge.  
     In this case we do  find  more value in knowledge that is obtained by hardship, but  there  
have been situations where knowledge has been easily obtained and stil  found to be very 
useful. Edward  Jenner   observed  people who had caught a  disease  cal ed cowpox and 
noticed that they did not  catch  smal pox. His theory was that those who had been 
inoculated with cowpox would become  immune  to the smal pox  virus . To support his theory 
he performed the world’s first vaccination on an  eight - year -old boy by first inoculating the 
boy with cowpox virus and  later  with smal pox virus, without smal pox disease ever 
developing .2 There wasn’t much  trial  and  error  when it  came  to his  experiment , he 
provided evidence for his theory and that’s how vaccinations came to be. This example 
shows  that  although  little effort was put into obtaining this knowledge, in  comparison  to 
discovering the structure and function of DNA, it has a value but due to the  lack  of 
scientific  studies  the experiment was risky and unethical. It has taken  years  of research 
and  development  to actual y obtain the  correct  knowledge about safely administering 
vaccinations. This shows how much value knowledge obtained  through  hardship and time 
has when compared to knowledge or information obtained quickly without much  proper  
testing.  
1 Leslie A. Pray, ‘’Discovery of DNA Structure and Function: Watson and Crick’’, http://
www. nature .com/scitable/topicpage/discovery-of-dna-structure-and-function-watson-397, 
10.01. 2016 .
2 Stefan Riedel, ‘’Edward Jenner and the history of smal pox and vaccination’ , https://
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/ articles /PMC1200696/, 10.01.2016.
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     I think that knowledge in natural sciences can have less value to us when compared to 
human sciences  even  though it is, in most  cases , produced with difficulty. There were 
many scientists that carried out experiments to  study   plant  life. It was in the 1600s when 
the first  reasonable  hypothesis was made by Jan Van Helmont (although only partial y 
correct), and it was only later in  1930s  that Cornelis Van  Niel  was able to propose the 
general equation for photosynthesis.3 It has taken hundreds of years for scientists to make 
sense  of photosynthesis, but we don’t real y value this information and it isn’t of much 
importance to us, the ordinary people. An argument for this would be the importance of 
understanding photosynthesis wil  help us  grow  a  healthier  crop for our population or 
efficiently.  Howeverplants  have been  growing  on earth for mil ions of years without the 
need of understanding the  process  of photosynthesis. We were able to produce food crops 
for our  consumption  and for trade/sale successful y even before photosynthesis was 
discovered and  therefore  we don't find it as valuable. When we compare photosynthesis to 
the discovery of the double helix in DNA structure which has helped scientists identify 
genes that trigger  diseases  and  manufacture  drugs for those diseases, it is  safe  to say that 
DNA discoveries are much more valuable to us, the ordinary people, as they can save 
humans   lives , whereas  learning  about photosynthesis doesn’t. The scientific community 
might, however, find information about photosynthesis very useful and 
valuable nonetheless.    
     
     Ethical knowledge is valuable though often  times  easily produced. Different people 
have different perceptions of what is ethical and what isn’t. We do heavily rely on common 
and widespread ethical  beliefs , but our personal ethical beliefs are  essential  y what we act 
upon . We decide for ourselves, whether we  consider  an action ethical or not.  Children  are 
taught that  animals  are their friends from early on. They  know  that animals  feel  pain and 
3 Photosynthesis Education, ‘’Discovery of Photosynthesis’’,  http://photosynthesiseducation.com/
discovery-of-photosynthesis/, 10.01.2016.
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emotions  just as humans do, and that they deserve to be treated with  kindnessParents  
share their personal knowledge on ethics using  languagereason , emotions, intuition and 
reason. That’s how the children learn about ethics. It doesn’t require  higher  education for 
them to understand the  concept , that animals are sentient beings just like humans and 
deserve nothing less. When we grow up we start to value the ethical knowledge that has 
been shared with us and which we’ve obtained from first hand experiences. These are 
beliefs that we  live  by and  expect  other people to live by for harmonious cohabitation. Our 
ethical knowledge often times become less valuable when two  similar  held beliefs start to 
contradict each other. As said before, we are taught to treat animals with kindness. Except 
it only applies when it comes to certain animals - those that we consider pets.  Cats  and 
dogs  general y live  good  lives, with their loving  families . However, it’s common for the 
families who  clearly  believe that animals deserve a good life, to sit down and eat the  body  
parts of animals other  than  cats and dogs. Even though it’s relatively  easy  for us to  come  
to ethical conclusions, we stil  value them because the  choices  we make are what 
determine our  survival , wel -being and  happiness .  
  
     It is the significance of the area of knowledge to a  person  that determines whether it’s 
knowledge is valuable or not, and how much. Different people value different things. 
Although we value knowledge that is produced with difficulty, it is knowledge that offers 
personal benefits to us that we truly value the most, no matter how difficult they are to 
obtain. It’s can sometimes be the knowledge that is produced with little to no difficulty that 
we truly value and thus I only partial y agree with the statement that knowledge produced 
with difficulty is what we truly value. 
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Bibliography:

1. Leslie A. Pray, ‘’Discovery of DNA Structure and Function: Watson and Crick’’, http://
www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/discovery-of-dna-structure-and-function-watson-397, 
10.01.2016
2. Stefan Riedel, ‘’Edward Jenner and the history of smal pox and vaccination’ , https://
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1200696/, 10.01.2016. 
3. Photosynthesis Education, ‘’Discovery of Photosynthesis’’,  http://photosynthesiseducation.com/
discovery-of-photosynthesis/, 10.01.2016. 
  
 
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