TOPIC: ISSUE169 - "Those who treat politics and morality as though they were separate realms fail to understand either the one or the other."
WORDS: 373 TIME: 00:34:06 DATE: 2010-2-5 15:58:01
The aim of politics is to make people live happily and conveniently, while the purpose of morality is to let one live with dignity and conscience. Some people take these two topics separately, but they'll suffer great failure from that because they will understand neither of them unless they combine politics and morality together.
As the Confucius said, "One can not live without morality", "Promise is debt ". If the head of the government didn't obey the morality, if the ruler couldn’t obey what he said, if the government often changed its words, can anybody put any confidence on that country? When we review the history, we can find that the most horrible memories are mainly caused by false politics, among which the Nazi hurt the human deepest. During the political activities, the lacking of morality will hopefully result in the lack of humanity, and then it'll become a hell above the ground.
On the other hand, we can not concentrate on the morality only. Dozens of years ago, China wanted to help colonized countries to be independent, so the Chinese Government output a mass of food to Africa as well as Latin America. Its aim was good, but the method is questionable. Behind the great amount of output is the greater even famine inside the country. China ignores its own political needs and pursues the morality only, which induced a great disaster to all the Chinese. That horrible memory reminds us that the political profits are always essential to a country.
Last year, almost all of the nations exist on the Earth attend the summit held in Copenhagen, in the good wish to make a solution to the urgent environmental problems. However, the result let every single one down. Every country is trying to fight for its own profit, and contradictions happened everywhere. The lack of the harmony for both politics and morality might be the greatest cause of this tragedy.
Nowadays, the world has become highly-internationalized, and the cooperation as well as negotiation between nations is more frequent and more important for both sides. The politicians should always try their best to balance their way between politics and morality, in order to bring hope and benefits to all the human beings.