Introduction

Hello Steemians!
I welcome you once again to this week contest on the steemit platform. This month has been a great month on the steemit platform as we have many engagement on across the selected communities for the steemit engagement contest. I am Kehinde Micheal and my username is @msquaretwins here on this great platform. I am happy to be part of the users engaging in the contest organized by steemitblog and the entire steemit team. In this post I will be defending three of the statement given by steemut pakistan in her post. Therefore, I want you to follow me closely. Happy reading!

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The three statements I will be defending are ;

• Votes are not guaranteed - SC1
• Punishment never has a good effect
• Money is more important than Love

Let's begin with "Votes are not guaranteed -SC1"

Vote are not Guaranteed -SC1

The statement "vote are not guaranteed" is a statement of steemcurator 01 of the steemit platform. Steemcurator01 is one of the prominent curators on the steemit platform. The statement means that curation is not sure for every content made on steemit platform. This means that irrespective of your quality post, vote is never guaranteed for it. Users need to know this so that they will not be disappointed if they see that their contents are not curated. Votes are not guaranteed.

For instance, the first week of steemit engagement contest was very great and superb. In the first week, I published seven great contents across the seven contest participating communities. Out of the seven contents I published, two were curated. Now, if I stopped after my first or second post and said since I did not receive vote, I will not continue publishing, I might not have received the 2 votes I later got eventually.

I want to say that, that you did not get vote or your content is not curated today does not mean it will not be curated tomorrow. You just need to keep publishing great and quality contents.

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Punishment never has a Good effect

Yea, the second statement I will defend is punishment never has a good effect. I will say this is right because there have been many instances where punishment which was thought to bring good fruit later brought pain and agony.

For instance, there is a family who had two children, a boy and a girl. The boy happens to be the elder. Their parent love them very well and give them what they want anytime. The parents did not allow their children to mingle with other children around them. But the children would always sneaked out to play with their friends. Anytime they did this, their parents would flog them and beat them.

But on a faithful day, they children sneaked out as usual to play with their friends. Then when they got home, the father severely punished them, unknowing to him that one of the children has gotten internal injury as a result of the punishment. Then around the mid night, the child started crying and shouting "my chest, my chest".... Before they carried him to the hospital, he died. Eventually, the doctor later told the parent that they caused the death of the child.

Thus is just an example of many instances where punishment has created pain, agony and even lost of lives. We should be very careful when punishing the children or any one that may offend us, because punishment never has a good effect. There is another instance where punishment later turn a child to a tug in the street. Some people believe if they don't punish a child it will grow to be a wayward person. Well, while that may be true, but I believe there is a way to correct a child without necessarily beating or flogging him or her before he harken to the instruction or correction.

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Money is more important than Love

The last statement I will defend is "money is more important than love".
Money answers all things. If you don't have money, you cannot enjoy life. If you have love and you don't have money, you can not enjoy your love. If you don't have money, automatically, you cannot be counted as someone in your community, because money answers all things.

Many ladies have been hijacked from their lives because of money. Many married women have sold their beds because of money. Many guys are now carrying women older enough to be their mother and grandma because of money. Lack of money has thrown many loves into the bottomless valley. Many loves are wallowing in the mud because of money.

I will share an instance with you. I know of a guy who has been into a relationship with a lady right from their secondary school days. The two of them love each other. Although the two of them went to different colleges, but they visited themselves often. In fact, the guy has some of his trusted friends who kept watch of the lady in her school. Their relationship was going on smoothly. The guy would always give the Lady whatsoever he could give since he also was in college at the time. Eventually, the lady left the guy and went with another guy who has been working and has money. Kai! The relationship of about 6 years. The guy was very disappointed when he discovered that. He later got to know that she went for another guy who has been working.

From this fact, you see that, money is very important. Without money, you may not be able to preserve your love.

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Conclusion

In this post, I have defended three statements out of the 5 statements we were given in the contest. The statement one is that vote is not guaranteed and I have defended this statement in my own opinion. Your opinion or perspective to this statement may not align with mine. If it does not, don't worry, everyone view things on their perspective and we are bound to have different perspective in life. The second statement is punishment never has a good effect. While I am a man of principle and values, I don't dispute the fact that correcting errors or mistake is bad. But there should be a way to do it without causing another incurable pain.

Lastly, I defended the statement that says, money is more important than love. All the statements put me in a tight corner. But what do I do? I don't have any choice but to defend it. I hope I tried my best defending all these statements.

Thank you for reading my article.