Government should spend more money in support of the arts than in support of athletics such as state-sponsored Olympic teams. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

Government should spend more money in support of the arts than in support of athletics such as state-sponsored Olympic teams. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.

With the development of society, art and athletics both play a significant role in our life. it is hard to judge which one, the arts or the athletics, is of greater importance. As for me, however, athletics wins the priority when comes to limited financial funding.

For one thing, athletics is easier to get started compared to the arts. That is to say learning a athletic skill require less talent and competence, which mean that almost everyone can master a skill without too much difficulties. Nevertheless, when it comes to art learning, many basic skills are necessary to actually finish a work such as imagination, the choice of color, distribution and so on. These requirements raise the level for people to start an art creation and deter the majority from the very beginning of the learning process.

For another, there is more competitive felling involved in an athletic game, which add more fun and meaning to the game itself. In other words, athletics enable us to distinguish the superior and inferior one while art doesn’t. For instance, during a running race, it is obvious for us to judge which one should win the first prize depending on the time the athletes spend. Instead, telling which oil painting is better is an almost impossible task.

Moreover, funding athletics stimulate the people and arouse their passion to get involved in physics exercise. More money spent on the athletics means more gyms, swimming pool, which can increase the living standard and the happiness level of the residents. The more exercise infrastructures are built, and the healthier the people would be, which may save the government a lot of money that planned to spent on health insurance.

From what have been discussed above we can draw a conclusion that though the arts and athletics are two totally different field, more money should be spent on  athletics.