issue 43 政治类，请拍砖，必回拍，谢谢~~~

nickaaronleeUID: 183378

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To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.
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Should an effective leader maintain the highest ethical and moral standards? I do not fully agree, sometimes, a public official should not tell the truth all the time and it is puerile for him to maintain the highest ethical standards in some cases.

First of all, in my opinion, if a public official maintain the highest ethical and moral standards, it may keep him away from the public. In fact, everybody have weaknesses and it is likely for a person to do something unmoral, which is understandable. However, if a public official maintains the highest ethical and moral standards, he may be considered to stand at a very high level, which results in a big gap between him and the public. In this case, the public may not understand him and are not willing to communicate with him, which may causes problems. For example, if this kind of leader carries out a new policy, the public is possible to misunderstand it and even ignore it. Gradually the leader will probably lose his people's trust and have to be away from the politics in the end. Clearly, everybody may do something unmoral, so is the public official. Therefore, it is acceptable for a public official not to maintain the highest ethical standards.

Furthermore, it is puerile for an effective leader to maintain the highest moral standards all the time. Usually a public official should do something unmoral such as cheating, and so forth. For example, for an effective leader, it is not sensible for him to tell the truth in front of his opponent or enemy. From time to time, he may speak nonsense to them and keep the national secrets, which is an advisable political means. Moreover, a public official is not only judged by his ethical standards. For an effective leader, he should contribute him to the whole nation and do anything effective for the public. Take Bill Clinton's scandal as an example. Clinton is an excellent leader. During his tenure, the economics of America keeps growing and people's living standards improves a lot. What he has done is appreciated by the American people. Consequently, we can not negate his contribution due to the scandal. Also the investigation to his scandal wasted a number of the money from tax-payers. Hence, it is childish for a public official to maintain the highest moral standards and not wise for us to judge an effective leader only through his ethical standards.

Admittedly, a public leader should have “necessary” moral standards. The fact that it is not essential for an effective leader to maintain the highest ethical standards does not mean it is not necessary for him to have ethical standards. Sometimes what a public official does unmorally may lead to a disaster. For example, it is the public official’s fault to make SARS spread through the entire China only within a month and the public receive no alerts from the authority. The minister of the sanitation department kept the public uninformative of the serious effects of SARS. In this case, the public did nothing to defend the disease, then SARS spread very quickly and there is no medicine available to cure it. That the public official did not tell the truth leaded to a disaster to the public. Thus, it is essential for a public leader to maintain moral standards.

To sum up, a public leader with the highest ethical standards may keep him away from the public and it is not mature for him to maintain the highest moral standards. However, when referred to the public interests, an effective leader should act morally.

nickaaronleeUID: 183378

捞一下~~~

nickaaronleeUID: 183378

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chrisyUID: 160364

开头格式没有什么问题  但没有必要把维持最高的道德修养和是否告知公众全部真相等同起来 因为道德修养还应该包括其他方面 比如私生活什么的 可以把这一点作为分论点展开 正如搂主B2的论证

B1 我觉得在论点上有点偏颇 我理解楼主的意思是说人无完人 领导人塑造过高的道德修养标准显得神化和脱离群众  但是论述起来就有点偏差了 人有缺点固然是必然而且值得原谅的 没有任何证据证明如果一个领导者保持最高的道德修养就会失去公众支持 这个观点一是比较绝对 二是有些贬抑我们提倡的一些品质 仿佛曲高和寡就不该追求似的 不太妥当 楼主可以尝试修正一下方向:    即使是领导人也不必须维持最高的道德修养  人孰能无过只类的

整体上无论语言还是结构我觉得都挺好的 个别地方再推敲一下就行了
搂主加油 大家一起努力:)

nickaaronleeUID: 183378

谢谢chrisy的意见：）都记下了，我再修改一下~~~