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TOPIC: ISSUE43 - "To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards."
WORDS: 356 TIME: 0:57:38 DATE: 2006-12-8
Outline:
1. 公务员需要比较高的道德伦理水平。
2. 要求公务员有最高的道德水平不必要
3. 要求公务员有最高的道德水平不可行
In principle, a public official must possess essentially high ethical and moral standards to acquire the authority necessary for being a effective leader. However, it is not appropriate to assert that the ethical and moral standards are needed to be the highest in the society.
Undisputablly, recognized morality is one of the base lines qualifying a public official. Essential maintenance in ethical and moral standards is requited for the natural authority in public leadership. Without natural authority gained from public respect, one can not carry out public regulation effectively in a modern democratic society, though nowadays the public officials need much more than moral conduct.
Nevertheless, imposing the highest ethical and moral standard to a public official is not necessary and feasible. Firstly, except in some theocracies, in most modern states, a public official carries on his or her job via professional skills rather than the most general and deepest respective. The public sector, particularly in a developed country, is highly partitioned into many highly functional units, leaving little space to a public official to make discretionary judgment based on their moral recognition, as most ordinary decisions a public leader made are largely regulated by well-developed professional standards and legislation.
Moreover, as the existence of highest ethical and moral standards requires the absolute weighting system of moral standard, which is absent, it is not feasible to expect the public officials to have the highest ethical and moral standard. In a small region, even low culture diversity generates significant divergence in moral standards. Without a single authority such as God in a theocracy, there never exists a consistent summit of ethical and moral standards. For example, in the issue of clone technique, since we consider both improving future life expectancy of human being and maintaining current ethical standard as morally correction, is there a leader with highest ethical and moral standards can effortless solves this conflict or dictates a solution?
In sum, while high ethical and moral standards are essential for effective leader, a public official do not necessary need to maintain the highest ethical and moral standards, which in my opinion does not exist. |
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