【答案解析】Should Lucky Numbers be Auctioned?
"So many people, so many minds." It is the same case for the answers to the question: should lucky numbers be auctioned? Some people may argue that lucky numbers should be auctioned so that the money from auction can be used to improve the public welfare. Namely, we use the money of the rich to do good to the public without any loss. However, this seemingly convincing opinion can be challenged in many ways.
Lucky numbers should not be auctioned. For one thing, such a practice may encourage superstition. Numbers are only symbols, but in Chinese tradition some special meanings are associated with these numbers. Superstitiously, some people try to avoid 4, for its pronunciation in Chinese happens to coincide with that of another Chinese character "si", meaning "die". 6 and 9 are all viewed as lucky numbers. If auction is permitted, numbers must be previously decided lucky or not. In this way, the superstitious implication of numbers will be officially recognized and made public. For another, the practice may produce inequality of social wealth. Numbers are the social wealth, and every person has equal rights to them However, the auction for lucky numbers will give the rich more chances to have the so-called lucky numbers; in this way others" rights will be deprived of. Therefore, auction indirectly encourages the inequality among people.
These are only parts of our arguments against auctioning lucky numbers, but from the evidence we have presented, we can naturally come to the conclusion that for the sake of the healthy development of the society, no auction of lucky numbers should be allowed or encouraged.