Speak your mind In this evidence, you have to write a composition expressing to what extend you agree or disagree with the statements below. Make use of the critical thinking strategies you learned in previous levels. 1. A political system is optimal not because it produces the policies that you prefer. It produces the policies that much smarter people prefer. Agree. There must be people who are master about policies of certain topics. It’s not possible to give pleasure to each individual and they have to focus in common benefits of the population. 2. The ideal system depends on the cultural attributes of the population. Disagree. The fact there are some things that belong on the cultural attributes It doesn’t mean that this is right. They have influence, but acceptance doesn’t depend only on that. For example, the slavery was a cultural attribute which was considered normal about a century ago, but nowadays it’s not acceptable at all. 3. Individuals should be admitted to schools and hired for jobs based on their ability. Agree People have ability and passion about something; tend to be more creative and productive. There are many frustrated people who dedicate to something just based on pleasing relatives or just because of money. 4. Unlike the private sector, the government is motivated by public interest. Agree Government depends on public about taxes, that’s why it has to work for the public to whom belong resources, because authorities are chosen by the public and they have to please them in order to thank them. 5. Taxes allow the government to create jobs and provide welfare programs for people in need. Agree Taxes are the main source of resources in a community, besides others like oil. 6. Governmental programs encourage people to become dependent and lazy instead of inspiring them to become hard-working and independent. Agree The paternalism is an obstacle that makes people become relaxed if those programs aren’t controlled and supervised about what people do with resources given to them.