5/31 politics

We learned what each of us was doing for their essays. But before that, we had a discussion about participation in politics. We learned that politicians cater to the needs of the majority of voters, not to the majority of citizens. rab drew an important difference between voter and citizen.

So, if i were a politician, whose votes would i prey on? well, i think i would prey on the elderly in Japan, appealing to their conservative values and subsidizing health-care for elderly citizens....

but i think i would hate myself if i did that........

oh, i almost forgot! we were told the results of our self-assessment on the PWT tests.

turns out we were way out of touch with the teacher who graded the paper before us! sorry to rab..

I just wondered about the tests... is it better to favour better typers or better hand-writers?

i mean, i am more comfortable using pen and paper than i am using computers... and the PWT confers an advantage to me because i can write more than my friends in the given amount of time.

In high school, where everything was done with pen and paper, i suffered a serious disadvantage because 1. i can' t recall Kanji well enough to write them, making my answers full of kana 2. i couldn't write fast enough; never managed to answer all the questions ( my grades weere good because i wrote terse answers, and had a high accuracy rate- i wrote the correct answers)

though the teachers allowed me to use a dictionary, they didn't allow me extra time.

In ICU too, i face abit of a disadvantage because i am not able to type fast, so when it comes to typing, i am at a disadvantage.

Is it democratic to confer advantage to the good (hand )writer or the good typist, or does it simply not matter?