Issue43政府官员与最高道德标准，帮忙看看吧，难题，提点意见，必回拍

flyingjoysUID: 2449032

ISSUE43 - "To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards."

To this issue, we need to analyze the proposition comprehensively, investigating the nature of the truth by critical analysis of concepts and hypothesis. The first level of this issue is the assertion of the existence of highest ethical and moral standards, and then the author asserts that to be an effective leader, a public official must maintain to them. To this assertion, I will agree with reservation.

The threshold problem is about the definition of the "highest ethical and moral standards. Ethical and moral standards are determined by everyone's core value and world view, which may be changed and different from the others. This is why the ethicists give us the explanation about the ETHIC RELEVASIM. In the development of history and the practice of human being, the society forms the norms and ethic and moral standards which are agreed by the most people, which play an important role to restraint individuals' behaviors.

Even the highest ethical and moral standards are not existed, whether a public official must obey these standards without reservation is the next question in front of us. In my perspective, the answer is not.

Fore and foremost, the politic has been activities among different groups who have their own interests since it was born. These activities have its unique game rules. If a public official want to be an effective leader of his group, he should fight for the group's benefit, even if the group need him to leave general moral standards. We can gain the concrete example from the history. During the WW2, the American official and the Soviet Union made the deal to sacrifice the small country benefit covertly. We all know that ethical and moral standards drive us to help the weak people, but when encountering the benefit of the country, the officials should defend for the country regardless the general standards.

Even though there are dilemmas between the general standards and the political standards, we can't deny the great similarity. To pursuit the freedom, the democracy, and a happy decent life is the general purpose of the human being. And a good government should be the strongest force to support these pursuits. The government should obey the ethical and moral standards to make the general citizens to receive their action and suggestion and gain the support so that they can manage the social affairs. When their behavior really forms a sharp contradiction between the general standards and the political standards, the general citizens will defend for their values, the standards. When Nixon’s endeavor to cover the evidences was going to ruin the justness and the democracy of the American society, the citizens rise to against him.

Furthermore, 20th century, a bloody century, really give us the great lesson about the leader and the ethic. The fascism has committed the most horrible crime. We can't deny that Hitler was an effective leader, because he was eloquent and really steer German to the flourish, even though which is short and dangerous. With the great advance in the democracy and the mass media,  maintaining the ethical and moral standards can easily to gain the support of the citizens. This is why the American presidents insist to the family values, if an individual doesn’t obey the basic standard to love his family, how can he love his country? Only after getting the support from the general citizens, the official can be a leader.

To sum up, the issue is so complex that we can't just summary in a sentence generally. We must analyze it case by case.  With the obeying to the general moral standards, the public official can serve the citizens well, but only by insist the individual ethic and moral, will obstacle them to look further in the great group, such as the nation.




(2008-8-5 下午 06:27:34)