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At the era of greatly improved concerns to morality and politics, the arguments between morality and politicians are attracting more people's attentions. In my experience, I agree that politics and morality are associated with each other under some circumstances; however, they should not be regarded as the same realm.Admittedly, politics and morality indeed have some correlations under certain condition. Common sense tells us that people are prone to following the advices of the politicians whothey admire for the high standards of morality; while on the contrary, those ones who are accused for lacking morality may not be advocated by the public at all（好像太绝对了点）. Take the Non-Violence Movement leaded by Martin Luther King to strive for black people’s rights for example（离的有点远，这个句子可以再改改如：take NVM for example in which）. We can hardly imagine a common citizen without honorable morality is able to organize such a large-scale political campaign successfully. On the contrary, when it comes to the government lead by Nixon, it actually lost its functions when Nixon was impeached.（这个例子最好再加一句论证） Nevertheless, the relationship between politics and morality is not always reflected as the causation. In fact, having the virtues may only be one of the premises of success for politicians. （这句很体现逻辑，不错！）A vivid example should lead the support to the statement is Gandhi’s failure to solve the severe conflictions occurred in India. No one can deny his great virtues, but it is impossible to deal with the political affairs only through（个人觉得这里用depend on比较好） it, although Gandhi used to succeed in gaining the independence of India by calling for the Indians to make a stand and fight against English government peacefully through his great morality. Further, we should not neglect some facts that contribute to the detrimental influences seem to be only caused by the lacking of morality of some politicians（能力有限，这个句子没读懂）. I admit that Clinton should actually be to blame for the sexual scandal while people should also（also换成as well放在句末吧） not deny his contribution to the longest sustainable economic growth after the Second World War. In practice, it is the excessive reports by the Medias（直接Media reports就好） that mislead the public to focus on the political leaders faults merely.Further, when looking into the assumption brought by the speaker, we may find that the politics and morality cannot be treated as the one realm at all. As the politics serves as the art of governing to solve the current problems while the morality is the guarantee of the stability and consistence of the society in the long term, the effectiveness of politicians should rely on institution rather than the morality. Washington, the first president of United States and， well known for his virtue, is considered to be one of the most famous politicians in history, not only because of his action to refuse to be the emperor of the United States but also for his attempt to constitute a democratic country for the posterities by establishing and maintaining the proper institutions such as no one could be a life president in America, never would the monarchy exits, etc. If the leader with the flaws of ethic and moral comes into power while there has already exited the proper institutions to supervise him, he would be effective as well as the one maintains much higher ethical and moral standards. By contraries, when the leader with high ethical and moral standards launches on dealing with the affairs while there are only illegitimate laws and regulations, he would be no more help at all感觉这句需要改.Since there is no firm relation between politics and morality, how can we regard them as the same realm?To sum up, although the assumption that the morality is firmly referring to politicians seems to be reliable at the first glance, we may conclude that they should not be included in a realm after we make clear about their essences. 条理清晰，思路明朗，例子与论证之间的连接还可以加强。 呵呵，我水平不高，瞎改。
[ 本帖最后由 doris_gxc 于 2007-7-31 08:05 编辑 ] | 
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