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TOPIC: ISSUE43 - "To be an effectiveleader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moralstandards."
WORDS: 653
TIME: 01:34:01
DATE: 2010-2-1 23:10:39
To some extent, I partly agree with thespeaker that public official should obey ethical and morale standards in orderto get reverence form people and to be an effective leader. However, it is notenough and accurate to judge whether a public official is an effective leaderjust according to his or her morale and ethic.
First, public officials use their powers entrustedby the masses to regulate all national or state events, as the representative ofregular people, in order to protect the people and nation's benefit frombeen
violated and keep the developmentof society and well-being of people. As the representatives, public officials,particularly leaders, should exert the effect of examples in the level ofmorale and ethic for regular people. Similarly, the masses always advocate andobey to the leadership of leaders with high moral and ethical standards.However If leaders violate basic standards of morale and ethic, people willcriticize severely and push them down from the leader position, once tore offthe hypocritical mask by public. We can hardly imagine that a leader who evencan not maintain necessary moral and ethical standards will be honest to theirpeople. For instance, the former governor of New YorkState, Pierce, who was forced toresign for the scandal of recruiting prostitutes, and the former governor of Illinois State, Rod Blagojevich, was arrested bypolice for corruption. Therefore, without necessary morale and ethic, a leadercan not be an effective one, and will be punished by people if they commit influence-peddling.
However, we have to concede that therenever is a perfect person, which is similar to leaders. Political leader is notan ethical leader, maintaining the highest ethical and moral standards seemstoo rigorous and unpractical for them. First, to judge effective leaders, weshould place more emphasis on the feats or the contributions they have made fortheir countries and people, and we can not deny these leaders as effective oneseven they made some kinds of mistake on morale and ethic without isolatingothers' normal rights. Americans never deny that former president, BillClinton, is an effective president for what he have done for the Unite Statesand all American people, even though, the sexy scandals between him andLewinsky once was the most popular issues discussed in the masses. Secondly,sometimes in order to keep the steady of society and the benefits of theoverall nation, political leaders have to cheat their people, which will beseen as dishonest and violating the basic moral and ethical standards, howeverregular people will forgive their behavior for that it is forced by thecharacters of their leading jobs, after all, their never want to betray theirpeople and nation.
If we put too much emphasis on the requestof maintaining highest moral and ethical standards to political leaders, itwill bring some severely negative effects. Such as, in order to obtain believesfrom the masses, political leaders will conceal their ambitions under ahypocritical mask, and do something against their will to present that he is aperson with highest morale before media. How formidable it will be if we areled by such evil person. And it is harmful for the development of the society.Just like what I talk above that political leaders have to cheat or conceal thetruth to the public to minimize the negative effect it will bring to ifbehaving according to morale and ethic. If political leaders consider too muchon the issue whether their decision violate the morale and ethic, they will notmake the best decision and lead their people progress on the right direction.
On balance, as an effective leader, he orshe must be a person that maintains ethical and moral standards, and withoutbasic morale and ethic, he or she must not be an effective leader. To judgepublic official, we should also sufficiently consider what they have done fortheir countries and people, with the objective attitudes that leaders are alsoregular people. |
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