Issue43 【7\8\9\10】作文小组 第八次作业 7.28

DemiquaverUID: 203651

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

Since it is widely accepted that ethic and morality serve to regulate or direct human behavior, a public official is expected to maintain highest ethical and moral standards. However, nobody is utterly good or bad. To my point of view, to be an effective leader, maintaining the standards in his work, that is leading people to achieve a generally accepted goal, is crucial. Nevertheless, in the private life of a public official, the standards are not that strict.

Admittedly, a public official with high ethical and moral standards gains respects from his people. Because maintaining the standards, he tends to solve problems in a way with ethic and morality, most of which are based on public aspirations. As people benefit from the leader’s dedicated work, they support him and follow him, which facilitate the leader to spread his thoughts and realize his plans, namely, leads him to be an effective leader. The best example of an ethical and moral leader I think is Nelson Mandela, the South Africa former president, who devotes his life to fight against racial oppression. His lifelong dedication for human rights and racial equality won him not only a Noble Peace Prize but also people’s respect all over the world. Such public officials like Mandela who maintains highest ethical and moral standards for the public is favored by most of people, which makes them effective leaders.

On the other hand, when theory and practice come into contradiction with ethic and morality of people, they lose efficacy and are doomed to failure. For example, unjustified political system which is discordant with people's moral feelings indicates crisis in the society. Consider the many leaders, such as Hitler, whom most people would agree were egregious violators of public morality. Although in short term, unethical public behavior might help them preserve leadership, in long term, their leadership came into collapse as a result of the immoral means by which they obtained power.

However, in private lives of official leaders, it is unnecessary and impossible to demand them to maintain ethical and moral standards that are highest, after all, everyone makes mistakes. People pay much more attention to what a public official does for the public. Consider the Bill Clinton's scandal with Monica Lewinsky. At that time, his opponents expressed amazement of his maintaining high approval ratings for the job he was doing as president. On the contrary, we do not care whether Hitler carried candy in his pockets to give to children, as some of his biographers claim. Therefore, it is unfair to demand that a public official should maintain highest ethical and moral standards in their private lives.

In conclusion, everyone has two selves----public self and private self. It is crucial to maintain high ethical and moral standards for a public official in his public self, because he is working for the publics. However, for private self of an official, it is not that important to obey the standards strictly.

[ 本帖最后由 Demiquaver 于 2008-7-29 18:04 编辑 ]

1001storyUID: 2516918

Since it is widely accepted that ethic and morality serve to regulate or direct human behavior, a public official is expected to maintain highest ethical and moral standards.（感觉逗号前后两句因果关系不是很明显，从人的行为到官员有些怪怪的哈！） However, nobody is utterly good or bad.（前后有转折的意思吗？） To my point of view, to be an effective leader, maintaining the standards in his work, that is leading people to achieve a generally accepted goal, is crucial. Nevertheless, in the private life of a public official, the standards are not that strict.

Admittedly, a public official with high ethical and moral standards gains respects from his people. Because maintaining the standards, he tends to solve problems in a way with ethic and morality, most of which are based on public aspirations. As people benefit from the leader’s dedicated work, they support him and follow him, which facilitate the leader to spread his thoughts and realize his plans, namely, leads him to be an effective leader. The best example of an ethical and moral leader I think is Nelson Mandela, the South Africa former president, who devotes his life to fight against racial oppression. His lifelong dedication for human rights and racial equality won him not only a Noble Peace Prize but also people’s respect all over the world.Such public officials like Mandela who maintains highest ethical and moral standards for the public is favored by most of people, which makes them effective leaders.（受人爱戴 就一定会有效吗？个人感觉是不是少点解释，哈哈！）

On the other hand, when theory and practice come into contradiction with ethic and morality of people, they lose efficacy and are doomed to failure.（作者讨论的是HIGHEST不是没有，我觉得有点偏！） For example, unjustified political system which is discordant with people's moral feelings indicates crisis in the society. Consider the many leaders, such as Hitler, whom most people would agree were egregious violators of public morality. Although in short term, unethical public behavior might help them preserve leadership, in long term, their leadership came into collapse as a result of the immoral means by which they obtained power.

However, in private lives of official leaders, it is unnecessary and impossible to demand them to maintain ethical and moral standards that are highest, after all, everyone makes mistakes. People pay much more attention to what a public official does for the public. Consider the Bill Clinton's scandal with Monica Lewinsky. At that time, his opponents expressed amazement of his maintaining high approval ratings for the job he was doing as president. On the contrary, we do not care whether Hitler carried candy in his pockets to give to children, as some of his biographers claim. Therefore, it is unfair to demand that a public official should maintain highest ethical and moral standards in their private lives.（这段的观点很好而且语言非常地道）

In conclusion, everyone has two selves----public self and private self. It is crucial to maintain high ethical and moral standards for a public official in his public self, because he is working for the publics. However, for private self of an official, it is not that important to obey the standards strictly。


你的文采很好，但是建议你可不可以注意下你的连词用法哈！个人意见，仅供参考哈！