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issue 50: Government officials should rely on their own judgment rather than unquestioningly carry out the will of the people they serve.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.


Should government officials rely on their own judgment or unquestioningly carry out people’s will ? From my points of view, the answer of the question should depend on what kinds of problem they are concerning about. For the problem referring to the whole national interest, the government should take the main responsibility to make the decision while in the terms of some livelihood issue, government officials’ judgments should fully rely on the will of people.Besides, the government and the public can also discuss and deal with problems together.

The government officials have their own idea when the issue refer to the whole national profits.The public sometimes can not be rational, irritate by media or some other institute with harmful idea to the society
E.g. Brexit vote, war decision

Also the government should give fully respective to people’s will when the problem closely related to livelihood of ordinary people as the officials may can not experience the life that people are going through.
E.g.The price of electricity, daily resources consumption.

However, as for some polity implements, the government and public can handle it together ensuring the right and suitable choose are decided.
E.g. president vote.environment protection.

Example:
Nevertheless, it is unrealistic to expect the government officials to follow people’s will blindly because people are often divided over important social issues.  For example, gay and lesbian marriage has been a hot issue in the United States in recent years.  While more and more Americans have become tolerant of homosexual couples, there are still a significant group of conservatives who oppose fiercely the idea of gay and lesbian marriage.  Given the deep disputes over the issue, it is not possible for the government to “carry out people’s will” because there is no consensus in the society on this issue.  The government will always be against certain people’s will no matter what it does.  Ultimately, the government officials have to make their own judgments taking into the account the public opinions, the laws as well as the overall public interests