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Parenting & Pregnancy > Adolescence Does competition help or hurt young people?

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Let's first define the meaning of competition. Competition is the attainment of a results by different individuals or groups, measured either objectively or subjectively, where the results are ranked and one result is recognized to be superior to all the others. Most peoples initial reflex reaction to this question is, "Competition is a part of life!" But although this is true, I think that our obsession with competition has some bad side-effects that does hurt young people and society in general. There are a couple of problems with competition's results focus:

1) Unethical behavior.
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