Why do people make it seem like all good things have to be hard to do?

Question

I've seen this sooo often. When people say, "anyone can do this, but it takes real skill to do that". Well so what? Just because something is harder to do doesn't make it better. What if the end result is the same? Two people can achieve the same thing. One does it the easy way, the other the hard way. For example, some people might use a computer to create CGI objects to place in a real environment, whereas another would get physical models built. If they both look exactly the same, or even if the CGI object looks better than the physical ones, then why does it matter if one was harder to do? People always make the argument, "Things like this was hard to do back in the old days, nowadays it's all done on a computer". Well, how do they know what it's like to do something on computer. In my experience it's often harder on the computer. If people are really thinking that all good things have to push you until you're near death then we might as well all stop driving cars, stop riding

bicycles, throw away our computers and TV sets, get rid of everything that makes our lives easier and more comfortable and start swimming vast oceans to reach other countries, or walk millions of miles between places, insult the heck out of each other, regularly get into fights, frown all the time and always put ourselves and each other through pain and misery and therefore by the end, we might just get some honorable trophy- "death"

Answer 1

I used to read the heck out of books, and now they are all on TV and computer.

This generation will never know what it's like to have to guess what Harry Potter's voice sounded like, since it became a movie. Left to your imagination, your mind would work harder to achieve this idea. That's the secret of books. It was a total letdown for me, for example, for Charlie Brown and Garfield to speak on TV. They had different voices in my head than what the casting director did.

I'd like to see what your life would be like without electricity for three months.

Answer 2

It's not like that. When something was much harder before of course that it was also better valued. But this doesn't mean we should try to make our life harder. Actually we're already doing this. Because with every new invention or technology, appear many new problems that have to be resolved. And when you make it, it opens even more new problems. See? World gets never easier... ;-) There will be always something hard enough to be valued highly.

Answer 3

people are just afraid that technology is going to take over. our older generation isnt use to it. there use to the more hands on way of life so they might look at a hands on way as being more hard work. but now a kid can come in with computer skills and knowlege and do the same task as a hands on person and sometimes faster. is it better one way or another? i dont think so. but then we get into other issues. for example, ask a kid now to do simple math without a calculator? there lost. there even allowing kids to use calculators on national tests now. you could ask my dad to do math and he could do it in his head. you could ask me and i would ask for a calculator.

things are crazy. but yes, people have to make things harder then they have to be. but in life, the quicker easier way is the best way anymore. people will fall behind if they dont learn and accept our new ways of doing things.

Answer 4

Perhaps people think that good things are hard to do because bad things are easy to do. Maybe the people who say that are just to darn lazy to do good things. Also I believe if the end result is good, it should not matter how you got there.

Answer 5

dear dear. science has made life good & many things are quicker & easier to do, than what it was like 60-70 years back.

How ever talking ethically, emotionally, and such, all good things are hard to achieve same meaning "hard to do"

Answer 6

Perhaps if you stopped looking at things so deeply you'd see the lighter & brighter side of everything, including the outdated veiws of some.

Answer 7

Good things change the world.

Answer 8

the simple things in life are the best

Answer 9

Exactly, when I go on the toilet, I produce exactly the same artwork as you do and all of you do!
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