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Issue185 Scandals—whether in politics, academia, or other areas—can be useful. They focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could.
written by alinazh
In the contemporary society, the multitude of scandals about various aspects strongly affects people. Some people insist on that scandals in politics, academia, or other areas are useful, because they focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could. In my opinion, I think that people should separate to see this issue according to the different functions of scandals. If scandals can bring positive effects on the public and society, they are useful. However, the left holding the opposite effects is not useful and even deleterious.
First of all, the clear definition of the scandal is necessary for us to start our full discussion. The first definition from dictionary is the loss of or damage to the reputation caused by actual or apparent violation of morality and propriety. The second definition is the malicious or defamatory gossip. According to two definitions, people can see that the first one is useful since like issue said, it reveals some hidden immoral behaviors unknown by the public, and the latter one is poison for people and the society. Next, I will interpret both respectively.
The beneficial scandals can induce people to put their emphasis on seldom understood social and political problems. The famous example is the Watergate scandal. In fact, no public speaker or reformer could have called the nation's attention to the problem of presidential misconduct unless the scandal had surfaced. Meanwhile, scandals about the corruption and bribery in politics, academia, business and other areas are more crucial. For example, in China, there are many scandals on the regional leaders' corruption. Originally, no one can openly complain such immoral behaviors because of these leaders' firm power in the areas. At this time, the scandal plays a vital role to attract the public and the central government attentions, and induce the blazing discussion on this scandal from the public. And then the government will be forced to investigate the events what the scandal said, finally, the immoral behaviors will be punished, meanwhile, affected and damaged persons by those violations can gain the fair, safe and just circumstance. Therefore, publicizing such scandal is useful for the stability of society and people’s happiness.
On the contrary, the scandals which just are the malicious and defamatory gossip can damage the stable society and destroy the innocent persons’ reputation. As we know, most details of baseless scandals are created by makers’ imaginations. Those makers actually meet one scene and one detail, and then only according to this scene and this detail, they begin to guess what will happen next and did happen in the past. Admittedly, many families are destroyed by such scandals making up the story of secret lovers, many talented actors or actresses commit suicide because they can not endure any malicious and defamatory stories about themselves, and even in the political field, many kind and amiable leaders have to leave their jobs since the political evil scandals. Therefore, such deleterious scandals should be avoided, because they can lead us to misunderstand and harm the beneficial and innocent ones but to mistakenly encourage the evil ones.
In addition, because there are two different scandals, which can cause different results, people should carefully identify every scandal and rationally receive these scandals, moreover, media are responsible for select and publicize the just and fair scandals to the public. Thus, people can correctly take advantage of the scandals for well-ordered society, positive moral system as well as brilliant lives.
In conclusion, people should rationally encourage useful scandals. Not every scandal is useful for the society and people. There are still some bad ones to bring the negative effects on the society and people. |
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