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发表于 2010-7-16 19:56:03 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览

TOPIC: ISSUE235 - "Most people are taught that loyalty is a virtue. But loyalty-whether to one's friends, to one's school or place of employment, or to any institution-is all too often a destructive rather than a positive force."
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TIME: 00:55:00
DATE: 2010/7/16 15:56:35

In the early time, especially the time when my father was young, loyalty was taught to be essential and like kind of worship. But now, as the author contents, loyalty has more destructive function than virtue. I, admitting that loyalty still need to be partly accepted, hold the idea it sometimes make the result opposite to people's expectation.

Loyalty is kind as it consists of believe, trust and mutual relationship, is the fundamental in several area insofar, such as politic realm, economic system, and spouse. Lack such loyalty, politists will be tired of defending themselves from chicanery and no longer international cooperation between governments will existed; spouse will worry about whether the other has lied or not, which will achieve no happiness at all; and economic system, mostly based on believe and trust, will fall into confusion and chaos because no one will trust anyone else. So the positive effect of loyalty is obvious. In another word, loyalty is sometimes equal to emotional cost and it indeed has value when doing cooperation.

However, excessive loyalty will act destructively more than virtually. In the realm of job getting, although excessive loyalty may sometimes bring good influence that makes you work harder and more concentrative, it increases the potential cost when you lose it because loyalty itself likes invention and if you are hired one day, you will pay more emotionally and physically.
Moreover, in the politic area, overdoes loyalty will cause corruption and autocracy. Let's take the example of South Korea nowadays. Everyone there is told to trust the president blandly and this loyalty actually harms the society as citizens there share few democracy and freedom. In that way, loyalty does not mean meekness and resignation but represents the wonder of more harmonious society and better life, in which case resistance is needed. So is the case in education and science where excessive loyalty to authority will kill creation and initiative. Einstein said: Our duty is not teaching people to follow others, but helping them find an untapped field. Just imagine, if Copernicus blandly believe Aristotle or Einstein was planted the idea that Newton's classic law is categorically right, those great breakthrough would not belong to them and the developing of science would delay heavily.

As the leaders of nations and the bosses of the companies, it is natural to expect loyalty of citizens or employers. However, it is unwise to force them to gain it which will be in vain and act adversely. Everyone is a freedom organization with the right to decide his or her own belief, and most of us will more or less resist the constraint in whatever mental or physical factors out of instinct. So if the leaders or the bosses want to gain loyalty, firstly they should pay trust on them as an emotional exchange of another kind of emotional payment, loyalty. Secondly, they should offer physical help as well as mental support, for example, higher salary, cozy working circumstance, or even clear clause of encouragement and punishment, both of which are the core of modern management.

On the other word, once the leaders or the bosses find their citizens or workers are not loyal, it is also unreasonable to exclude him or her to let him or her feel marginalized, which will accelerate the tendency and the result is not good for both sides. On contrary, leaders or bosses should try to change the situation with solving the problem beginning at himself. It is better to solve the problem, and if not, diminishing the influence is last choice, better than punishing or firing anyway.

To sum up, loyalty should be regarded as the basis of harmonious society and relationship, while overdoes trust has negative effect. Everyone in the society as a whole should regard loyalty as a kind of mental invention that successfully you will gain the same trust but unluckily you may be exploited.