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TOPIC: ISSUE43 - "To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards."
What makes a effective leader is a question that had been raised by people living long ago, yet even now there is no direct answer to it. The comformity to eithical and moral disciplines has a certain extent of neccesity. However the situation holds more complexity than the issue states.
In the ancient times, it is the wise men, usually the senior, who act as leaders. Apart from their experience, what people believes in them is their disinterestness due to their obeience to the highest social standards. An immoral person would be regarded as inadequate to take the power of leadership. Won't he use the power to benifit himself instead of the citizens? Or even worse, won't he justify his immoral acts by rewriting the law? These concerns are enough to close the door of leadership to a person who did something wrong. What people want is an immaculate individual who will most probobly concern the well-being of his people more than himself.
Such voices that only a morally and ethical correct person has the ability to lead others, although muffled, still has an impact on people's minds today. It is often seen that a political scandal could destory one's career as a public
official. Even if whole thing has nothing to do with law, say an ilicit love affair, the media would immediately detect and spread, and the public opinion would then force the leader to relinquish. Such experience reveals the common people do request a relatively high moral and ethical standards to be reached by their leader.
While a preference to elect an individual without maculates exsits and it can hardly be blamed. It is time to realize that to be an effective leader, an absolute stickness to the moral and ethical discipline is unrealistic as it is unnecessary. There is no perfect man.Thus an truly immaculate leader never came into being. So it is unfair to ask leaders to reach the highest moral and ethical standards. Also, it is acceptable that a leader, as an ordinary man, has some blots, as long as he can still handle the demands of the leadership. In this sense, over supervisions, followed by actions to disinter every little fault, whether moral, or ethical, should be considered meaningless and malevolent, which in fact impede the development of society.
To sum up, it is advisable for the potential leaders to behave theimselves and
try to keep a positive image to public, because people are sensitive to political
scandals just as they were hundreds of years ago. On the other hand, the average person should be more tolerant to bore with some blemishes, if they doesn't prevent their leaders from making right decisions and fair judgements. |
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