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TOPIC: ISSUE212 - "If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it is justifiable."
疑惑论点:只要目标正确,就可以不择手段!
Key words: worthy goal; any means justifiable. ANY这个词暴露了论点的破口!
Position: Means is not necessarily justifiable!
Should we praise approve any measures means a people take to reach attain a worthy goal? The speaker claim so for the reason that all the means taken to attain a worthy goal are as justifiable as the goal itself. However, in my observation, the speaker's view might be a bit extreme and the issue should be analyzed in two respects.
第一段亮出自己的观点:No matter the goal is worthy or not, the means to attain it is not necessarily justifiable! The goal is one thing, the means is another.
The implicit rationale behind this speaker's statement seems to be that a ''worthy''goal is a goal which is accepted by everyone. However the speaker's definition of ''worthy'' is not am accurate one since whether a thing,a people pursing for, is worthy or not is determined by individual value system,subjective preference. For instance,spending 10 hours on cracking a complex software is a contemptible behavior to most people ,since it is surly illegal,but an amazing feat to a computer hacker.In other words, the speaker's claim begs the question. For the sake of the following discussion,we should define a worthy goal as a widely accepted goal rather one that only accepted by the practitioner himself, while the speaker's claim is a bit misleading.
分辨worthy的真假,有转移话题之虞!需要攻击的目标应该锁定在any means上面。只要说出有些means不是justibiable就可以了。当然,先要肯定有些means是justifiable。先让步,后攻击!
I concede that under some specific circumstance, it is necessary, or even desirable to attain the worthy goal irrespective of whether the means satisfy the moral law. For supporting example,one need look no further than the battlefield. The game of war calls for a certain amount of violence, cruelty, cunning, that we might otherwise characterize as inhumanity.These behaviors are necessary means to the final worthy goal--the comprehensive victory of a war. A soilder's charity and tolerance are sign of vulnerable, and which his enemy will use to every advantage to kill him. In sum, those seemly inhumanity behaviors are critical to a soldier's survive, and even more , to a country's survive.
感觉转移了话题,而且不利于自己的观点。竟然说 Unjustifiable means is sometimes necessary for a worthy goal?
Forgoing this proviso, however, the speaker unnecessarily extends this broad assertion to embrace the idea that all means are justifiable as long as the goal is worthy, while ignoring that certain means of attaining a worthy goal are unjustifiable. We, as part of the democratic society, should no deviate the written law and the moral law in the process of attaining the worthy goals we regard. In the event that money is worthy to everyone ,should we abandon all the moral laws we followed in order to gain as much as we want, by deceiving or even stealing and robbing the innocent people? Under the circumstance that grade is worthy to students, should every student begin to cheat in the exams for a higher grade? If everyone say yes to these two questions, it is hardly to imagine how dangerous and chaotic the society would be. As a result, every residents suffer from the unregulated behaviors, leading to moral anarchy and corruption.
到底是讨论justifiable还是moral?这段的重点是说:即使goal是worthy的,很多时候采取的means却不是justifiable。举例:战争中的暴力;靠欺骗赚钱;用核武器维护和平;靠暗杀夺取政权;等等。
Another reason for my fundamentally disagreement is that the speaker's claim might undermine the rigor of scientific research upon which is the very foundation human knowledge advances. For example, Hwang Woo Suk, the top biology scientist of from Korea, concocted scientific research statistics about the human embryonic stem cell in order to gain more academic reputation for his motherland, and probably ,to gain more funding for himself. Though the purpose is a understandable one, the means Hwang took are is mean and disdainful(这个词用法不对!) unjustifiable. Had all the scientist acted like Hwang, we would have still lived in cavern and have no television set for entertainment.
这几段是上一段的补充,one more example about science, is chieting justifiable to attain a worthy scientific reputation for one's motherland? Obviously not!
To sum up, in most cases, though attaining the worthy goal he or she believes is important to everyone, we must take a consideration over the means which are aimed at finally achieving it (语法不通!). In short, the merit of the worthy goal pales(?) in importance compared to conscience and moral.
由于前面自己的观点偏离,总结不太有力。后句也不知所云。用长句结尾实为下策啊!况且还是病长句!建议改成: To sum up, though a worthy goal is worthy of great effort and investment, the means to attain it is not necessarily justifiable. We should pay attention to guarantee that we are taking justifiable means on the way to attain our goals so as to make it really worthy. |
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