Issue185 0806G加速度作文小组第一次作业

nun318UID: 2205752

185. "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."
丑闻——无论是政治、学术还是其他领域——可能会是有用的。丑闻可以用演说家或者改革家无法使用的手段让我们注意到某些问题。

The speaker claims that scandals can be valuable in politics, academia, or other areas because it can draw people’s attention on some problems in ways that speaker or reformer never could. However, the speaker does not consider the negative effect that the scandals take, and overstates the use of scandals.
                                 
Admittedly, in such a changing, complex and diverse society, it is hard to attract people’s attention, but scandals successfully focus people’s attention. However, scandals make people focus on one person or one thing rather than the real problems as the speaker says. At the same time, scandals always focus public’s attention in some negative ways.

Firstly, people always focus on scandal itself rather than the problem which it reveals. Most times, a scandal represents individual’s behavior, although it reveals the social problem or other potential problem, people can not inspect it clearly. They spend most of time concern the scandal itself then discuss and judge the subject in the scandal. Scandals may attract people’s attention for a while, but it does not have a profound effect such as allowing people to concern the problem hidden behind them for a long time. At this level, scandals’ value cannot compare to the value of speaker’s insightful speech or the reformer’s revolution.

Secondly, many scandals are made up by some people with certain aims, especially in politics area. If scandals are not true, they also lost all of their meanings. People sometimes cannot discover lies from the scandals. During the president’s competition, candidates always attack each by exposing one’s scandals. However, some of them are not true or are distorted by some people. In a sense, these scandals mislead people to make some wrong decisions. If people believe these scandals, they possibly lost a good leader. Even these scandals are true they cannot help people recognize social problems profoundly. Scandals just become tools for politics achieve their own aspires.
Secondly, scandals always overwhelm concern about people’s private life which should be withholding from public. For some people, especially for those leaders in professional fields such as politics, business, and academics, who need maintain authority in their areas, scandals may be their vital weaknesses in their careers, because scandals make they lost respect from their members. For example, the sex scandal between the US former president Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky become a huge shadow although America’s economy grown constantly during Bill Clinton’s administration. Compared to the social issues which really need to be concerned, the scandals actually focus on leaders’ or famous people’s personal life.

Perhaps the worst contribution of scandal is the negative attitude it encourages. The most negative effect of the scandal is that it damages the stability of our society. Common sense and experiences inform us that a stable environment can help the improvement of society as a whole. Unfortunately, scandals always break this stable and peaceful condition and cause a series of crisis of credit and a feeling of fear, sometimes even distort the value of the society. Scandals make people do not trust their leader and students do not believe their professor. If every member of society does not trust each other, it is absolutely harmful for the development of the society.

To sum up, although the scandals indeed focus people’s attention efficiently, however, in a long term, it is not useful for people to discover the potential social problems. Conversely, scandal itself could take some more serious problems and has a harmful effect on our society.

CrazyCat666UID: 2450921

哇，写得好棒啊，剖析得挺深入的