Issue212 【challenge yourself小组】第三次作业 by monica365

monica365UID: 2230712

中文提纲：
1.       表明立场，反对题中观点
2.       从学术，商业，技术发展三个角度，分三段来阐述“为达目的不折手段”的坏处-往往会损害大多数人的利益
3.       结尾重申观点


TOPIC: ISSUE212 - "If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it is justifiable."
WORDS: 495          TIME: 00:45:00          DATE: 2008-7-28 17:40:46

In my observation, the speaker's assertion that any means taken to achieve a goal which is worthy is justifiable seems over-statement and could not apply to all situations. Moreover, according to the economic conception of "Externality" - the external effects of single action towards outside well-beings or environment, this kind of "justifiable action" sometimes would bring harmfulness in many aspects.

First consider when the assertion applies to academic areas. Admittedly, academic awards such as Nobel and National Prize are the goals which majority of scholars has been searching for dozens of years or even life-time, since they are the most persuasive proofs of the excellent performances in specific academic area. I concede that taking proper means to fulfill the goal is appraised and respecting, however, as the scandals, which some scholar stole the research results from others to attain prize emerging, can we still treat it justifiable? Without doubts, it is harmful to the progress of academy, and to some extent, discourages scholars who dedicate to the research. If this kind of justifiable action is widely recognized, how could we expect the development of academy and its contribution to our society?

When it turns to business realm, the "justifiable action" is also disappointing. In search for the maximum profit and minimum costs, corporations sometimes would sacrifice the quality of products for the short-term profits. In the eyes of managers from these corporations, profit-oriented goal is definitely worthy, yet it injures customer's benefits and their own brand-image. These groups of people do harm to the majority public for their individual profit, is it still justifiable? Another example involves the monopoly in business field. As we know, a corporation can make a new market price on it's own after it achieved the monopolize position in the market, then the customers have no choices but accept the incredible high prices and other corporation, more or less, facing the decision of quitting market. If the situation is getting worse, the whole domestic market would be strongly damaged. The profound negative externality is exact the reason why government have been forbidden monopoly, the unjustifiable behavior, in market.

Turning to technical development, the extreme view from the speaker would bring harmful externalities to most of citizens as well. With the development of high-tech inventions in the past one hundred year, our life becomes more convenient, our work becomes more efficient, but how about our life quality? While the petrol fumes and toxic gases around us, and human-beings are suffering from great inventions of the century, is it the high time for us to get a balance between technical development and environmental protection instead of attain success in technology?

In sum, I fundamentally disagree with the speaker's assertion, since in the field of academy, business and technology taking any means to attain a goal seems worthy might be unworthy indeed, and the harmfulness the extreme behavior would bring to majority public is the best proof of its unjustifiable aspect.

springelfUID: 2458536

你的argument的帖子已经被斑竹封了。发帖前请先看看这个帖子  https://bbs.gter.net/viewthre ... 6&extra=page%3D

被封了以后组员就没有办法帮你修改了~~~

zhangrongxinxlnUID: 2368076

Admittedly, academic awards such as Nobel and National Prize are the goals which majority of scholars has单复数错误，have 对于第三段的tech的论述不如学术界和商业界的论述，没有举例说明take了什么means，又有了什么危害，但是总体来说写的很好~~~

monica365UID: 2230712

啊~~好的好的
我改过来了。。。
谢谢哈