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ISSUE212 - "If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it is justifiable."
Living in a world fraught with marvelous opportunities and fierce competitions, every individual and every institution have goals that direct them what deserves their efforts and energies and time while dominating every behavior of them. surviving in a society can not live without goals, for numerous times we wonder the principle and methods of attaining the goal, the speaker asserts that any means taken to achieve a goal that is worthy is justifiable. As for me, I disagree with the speaker since he fails to take a fuller consideration of the nature of the goal and his principle of any means is justifiable to attain a goal is so extreme that may harm our society in various realms.
The speaker seems to assume that every goal can be characterized as worthy or unworthy, however, along with the development of our society in nearly every realm, the problems and challenges we are faced with are no longer pure white or pure black, they are grey ones. The goal to solve those problems or challenges becomes controversial, no one can define a goal as a worthy one or a unworthy one. An apt illustration involves in the development of cloning technology. The advances in cloning technology is companied with numerous questions and suspicions, cloning technology has been under fierce debates since the emergence of it. Public and sociologists oppose the development of cloning since it may bring devastating results to our society, in face of cloning human, our traditional morality and principles would be teetering on the brink of collapse, as we can not draw a consensus as to whether those cloning humans should enjoy the human rights such as freedom, vote rights and so forth traditional human beings embrace, how to define the relationship between the cloning person and its original individual. However, many scientist supports such technology unjieldly for advances in such realm would exert positive impact on medicine, through cloning, many fatal diseases that cannot be cured today could be solved and human beings are able to gain a strong body and lead a healthy life. Thus , the goal of cloning is a controversial goal no one can define whether it is worthy or not. The speaker fail to take into account that our society is composed by different and diverse individuals possessing various thoughts and values due to their educated level, cultural backgrounds, religion beliefs and so on, it is hard for them to hold a same attitude towards every issue, including a goal..
The speaker not only ignores the complexity of defining the goal, but also fail to take the nature of the measures taken to obtain the goal into consideration. As is known to all, everything has two sides—beneficial side and detrimental side, ignorant of the side effects of the measures may amount to addressing pressuring social problems. For instance, few people will oppose the development of economy, since without increasing economy, it is impossible for us to embrace abundance of goods and services and lead a happy and leisure life. However, if we develop our economy at the expense of environment, we would suffer from polluted air, dirty water, more strange and fatal diseases, then the level of living would undoubledly decrease sharply and our civilization would stagnate, even setback. So, in order to reap the sustainable and long term benefits from our measures, it has vital importance of evaluating both the positive and negative sides of them, and choose ones that could maximize the benefits and minimize the harmness of them.
Having recognized the faults of the statement, by no means should we deny that such statement is of certain value under some conditions. For example, before Edison saw the first light of the bulb, he had tried more than 1400 kinds of materials and nearly any measures that were possible to achieve his target had been taken, without the unjeiding persistence of edison, the prevalence of bulb may delayed for unknown time, and people may still live in the darkness and the development of industry would slow down. Thus, this statement also has a positive effect in the realm of scientific researching.
From what has been discussed above, we may safely draw the conclusion that the statement overlooks the difficulties in defining whether a goal is worthy or not and loses a comprehensive consideration of the side effect of the measures taken to achieve a goal.
niyinan(塞纳)改懒蚂蚁
【212】. If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it is justifiable.
只要值得,不择手段达到目的是合理的。
提纲:一,不同意作者的观点,要弄清楚worthy和 justifiable的判断标准。我们要用合理的方法取得成功。
二,
关于if a goal is worthy 的讨论。个人层面(不能危害了其他人和社会这个整体)和社会层面(要符合大众的利益而且不能危害大众的利益,还不能被一些人或政党绑架)。
三,即使一个目标是worthy的,达到这个目标的方法也必须得要合理,合法。个人的目标怎么样?(被社会唾弃或者被法律惩罚)社会的目标怎么样?(引起群众的不满,动乱甚至是冲突)
四,即使有时候会用一些不太好的手段获取成功,但是这种成功是建立在利益大于支出的基础上的。实现这种目标的方法是合理的。
五,我们要用合理的方法取得有意义的成功。为社会和个人创造最大的利益。
In our contemporary society, there is a controversy over the issue that whether the means taken to attain a worthy goal is justifiable, no matter it is noble or low. In my opinion, great attention must be paid to the worth of our goals and the justice of the ways we use. In a sense, we should achieve our objectives appropriately.
In the first place, a full understanding of the worth of a goal is necessary. Everyone treats the goal which brings them benefits as a worthy one in the reason of human's egoism. Nevertheless, since people live in a society, their benefits interacts with others’ of the society, and no one can deny that one's achievement must not base on the consumption(at the expense) of other people's interests. On the one hand, any individual's goal should not jeopardize the benefits of the others or the society as a whole, if not beneficial to them. On the other hand, the goal of an organization, a nation or the society should propel the improvement of its members instead of bringing harm to them or being utilized for the personal purpose. Only all these aspects are available can a goal be considered worthy.
In the second place,
after determining the worth of a goal(中文的感觉。。。换个说法感觉好一点。。。。), we will(should?) use all we have to make the goal come true. Does it mean that every means we use to achieve the goal which is proved to be worthy is justifiable just as the author asserts? Absolutely no, our processes for getting the foal must be conformed to our morality and laws. If an individual attains his or her destination in an irrational way, everyone of the society treats him or her as a loser rather than a successor. What's more, he or she may be punished by law if the damage they bring to the society is huge. An apt example is the Madoff's crime of fraud. He swindled so much money that he was judged into prison for 150 years.(个人感觉还能写得再好一点。) On the other side, when it comes to the society's goal, the method used to accomplish it must be built on the whole society's benefits. If not, insurgences, even incidences of violence, may come up. No wonder there were so many demonstrations outside the conference of Cobenhagen. Because this conference, viewed as one essential step of solving the problem of green house, did not consider benefits of many little island countries. So only through proper means can we get the goal hopefully, happily and effectively.
What's more, some processes that harm someone's benefits do exist in our society. Can we view them as lawless? I do not think so. Firstly, the goal it achieves, in other words, the benefits it gets through this way, is obviously more than what it costs. Secondly, though ?some harm it brings to our society, it does not violate the law. At last, no one treats it as an ugly thing because of the advancements it emerges. After thinking about this deeply, we conclude that this kind of means is also an appropriate way to success.(没有例子,感觉不是很有说服力;还有就是合不合法好像并不能说明是否值得。)
To sum up, using appropriate ways to get the significant goal is justifiable. By doing so we make more benefits for our society and ourselves as well.
整体感觉,说理还是不错,但是缺乏例子,加上必要的例子会更加饱满,个人看法。呵呵。
感觉很好,句式词汇丰富,逻辑也比较清楚。
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