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Issue212
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作者：Susanna
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If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it is justifiable.
如果一个目标是值得的，那么追求目标的任何手段都是正当的。
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despicable
obtained(abtained)
determent(determine)
variant(variants)
disastrous(disastrous)
absurd(obsurd)
conscience(concience)
indispensable(indespensable)
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For the noblest cause of liberty, freedom, equality, and for restoring peace and social order, some indispensable means, even force, taken to attain them turned out to be the noblest in human history for their contribution to society advancement
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Yet，some politics plead the claim as an excuse for their idea of achieving security through national armament fostered by atomic bombs and mass destruction weapons, which has assumed a hysterical character and feverish haste
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At the personal level, I also leave the speaker's claim open to doubt, as there are always people who plead a worthy goal as a reason for their contemptible means and private interests
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In my opinion, this extreme position misses the point totally, for whether certain means should be used to attain a worthy goal is determined on a case-by-case basis.

For the noblest cause of liberty, freedom, equality, and for restoring peace and social order, some indispensable means, even force, taken to attain them turned out to be the noblest in human history for their contribution to society advancement. Here I cite Patrick Henry's words in his famous speech presented during the period of the independent war of the United States--Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death--for calling people into the battlefield: “If we wish to be free, if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained--we must fight! Sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us.” Another example aptly illustrating this is Lincoln, who holds a belief when an end is lawful and obligatory, the indispensable means to it are also lawful and obligatory, and who gave America a new birth of freedom by civil war.

Yet, some politics plead the claim as an excuse for their idea of achieving security through national armament fostered by atomic bombs and mass destruction weapons, which has assumed a hysterical character and feverish haste. Speaking as a human being, a member of the species Man--the most intelligent biological species whose continued existence is in threat, this world is full of conflicts, and peace and security is our common goals, but so far from the position holding true, the determent element to attain this common goal has not appealed to an universal understanding and cooperation among nations but to armament race and atomic bombs, even to hydrogen bombs, which could obliterate the largest cities in the world and put an end not only to the entire human race but also any life on earth. I dare not admit that when this possible disastrous end of annihilation comes to reality, the speaker would still hold this unilateral and absurd standpoint that any means is justifiable to attain a worthy goal.

At the personal level, I also leave the speaker's claim open to doubt, as there are always people who plead a worthy goal as a reason for their contemptible means and private interests. To some extent, not the result but the process instilled in pursuing a worthy goal deserves our accolade since it is always this process that pushes the society forward. In this respect, whether the means is justifiable is determined by weighing the benefits against the costs to the society. The rogues may argue that if the speaker’s claim were false, they would have failed by this time. They may argue that they do not find manors, got by rapine or chicanery, insensibly to melt away, or that all gold glides, like thawing snow, from the thief's hand that grasps it. In my views, the speaker's statement, this extreme consolation, administered these opportunists. The truth of the proverb: ” ill-gotten gain never prospers” lies with the sharp distinctions of the fluctuating and the permanent. Is wealth so dear, or poverty so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and freedom? It costs too much at the risk of one's life in jail or one's conscience being punished by perpetual insecurity and suffering. We have witnessed too many cases where ill-gotten goals result in total chaos even death derived from the improper means they take. The costs greatly surpass the interests yet many immoral, even ways outside the boundary of law are still driven by the greed and insanity.

In sum, the speaker oversimplifies the issue. Reflections as the foregoing invested my standpoint that whether certain means should be used to attain a worthy goal is on a case-by -case basis with ample illustrations. When an end is for liberty, freedom and equality of people, some despicable means can even turn out to be noble for its achievement in society advancement. When an end is peace and security for a nation, the ways at the expense of entire human beings’ existence is unjustifiable and even disastrous, when the goal is worthy at the personal level, the effort instilled in the process of pursuit should better deserve our accolade since it is the process not the result that pushes the society forward.

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