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Issue43 第10篇 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧!
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作者:寄托家园作文版普通用户 共用时间:53分56秒 650 words
从2005年6月3日17时31分到2005年6月3日18时53分
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To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.
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There is a debate on whether or not a public official should maintain the highest ethical and moral standards to be an effective leader. In my opinion, although the high ethical and moral standard is the fundamental requirements to political leaders to win the support from the public, what matters for how great he/she could achieve in the admission is the mastery to tradeoff between ethic and moral standards and other critical concerns for immediate purposes.
It is true that without the high ethical and moral standards in apparent, rarely could a politician win enough support to be a leader. It is the trust of the public to support a leader from the common people to a raising star, because the public believe that the support to the candidates who have high ethical and moral standards will devote themselves to the public welfare as public officers, rather than abuse their power to benefit to own. Otherwise, if the public leader is challenged by others to his/her ethical and moral standards, hardly could the challenged leader maintain the authority and position. To data back the history of United States Presidents as examples, Presidents Nixon resided from his presidency due to the Water Gate event which made him become a dishonor to the public. President Clinton, who involved into the sexual scandal with a female intern in White House, also was summoned to the court and was inspected by the public. Indeed, the behaved high ethical and moral standards could help a leader to enhance his/her leadership and authority; while the taint of personality would undermine a leader’s authority and reputation, and even pull him into a nightmare.
However, it is hard for a politic leader to meet all kind of ethical and moral dogmas defined by various social groups, because in the realm of public issues the ethical and moral codes often contradict to themselves. Suppose you were a major of a city, the settlement of new oil refinery could create more jobs to ease the intensive pressure of unemployment in your city. But the proposal was firmly against by a pack of people who only concern their belief in environmental factors, since the oil refinery would pollute their cherished fresh air. Likewise, the crops and vegetables by the transformation of generic engineering, which are hopeful to solve the problem of hungry people in Africa, are also against by some people who argue that the deformed food may harm the health of human being. Due to the difficulty to make a widely accepted decision, the politicians are often compared with the fox for their sophisticated nature.
In fact, to be a successful political leader, what is necessary is to understand the art of tradeoff among different parties with various expectations. President Lincoln, who leaded the Americans to abolish the slavery by the Civil War, was an excellent sample. Although, admittedly, some people in the North, who supported the abolition, were really motivated by the sympathy to the hardship of the Black and by their high ethic and moral standards, most soldiers who devoted themselves in the battle field were attracted by the offer to claim a wide area of land in the West if they could beat the South. In the same way, rather than the moral factors of race equality, what pushed the businessmen in the North to support the finance of the Army was the desire on the fortune by building railways and factories in the West, instead of the plantation by the South. If Lincoln failed to understand the demand of those people who expect different from him, he could not set up a strong army to beat the South.
In short, in order to call for enough supports from citizens to accomplish great goal, an effective leader should seek the optimal balance between the ethic and moral standards and other requirements by other people with diversified interests. |
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