issue43-G-89-互助社8.2日

fishjoyUID: 2116013

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


Should a public official maintain the highest ethical and moral standards to be an effective leader? It is tempting to agree that the higher ethical and moral standards a public official, the better. High ethical and moral standards are absolutely necessary qualities a leader should possess, but it does not ensure a successful leadership, and we can not ignore other qualities of equal value that a effective leader should hold.


To begin with, by any means, High ethical and moral standards should always be listed in an effective leader’s moral guarantee. An official without high ethical and moral standards is doomed to fail to lead the public effectively, or even worse, to spell disaster on the public. Throughout history, innumerable examples have showed again and again how a society or a country is destroyed by immoral leader. We can pick up in Chinese history books a pile of names of immoral empires who imposed endless sufferings on his or her people and cause social disasters, such as Shang Zhou and Empire Sui Yang. In other words, it is never enough to require a public official to possess high ethical and moral standards.


However, maintaining the highest ethical and moral standards does not ensure a successful leadership. To be an effective leader, as we know, one should possess plenty of merits such as wisdom, competence, enlightenment, tolerance, shrewdshrewdness, prowess as well as high ethical and moral standards. Take Confucius’ unsuccessful political life for example. As a philosopher and a moralist, he achieved great accomplishment undoubtedly; as a public official, he is actually unsuccessful. Nobody would doubt his high ethical and moral standards whether his contemporaries or later generations, but whether he possess enough political qualities is questionable according to the record of history. Thus high ethical and moral standards are not related to a successful leadership inevitably.


Furthermore, expectation and requirement that a public official should possess the highest ethical and moral standards is unpractical and reasonless. A small flaw can not overthrow one’s qualities as an effective leader and the greatness one has achieved. In my observation, many effective leaders devoted themselves to work so much that they often did not care about their families enough, which in moralists’ views, they do not possess the highest ethical and moral standards. Not spending enough time with family does not encumber one to be recognized as an effective leader. Nobody is as perfect as God. Possessing higher ethical and moral standards is sufficient for one to be an effective leader.


Furthermore, expectation and requirement that a public official should possess the highest ethical and moral standards is areunpractical and reasonless. For one thing, it seems difficult and hopeless for one to reach the highest ethical and moral standards. We have to admit that human beings always have such-and-such flaws, weakness and shortcomings in their personalities. It is impossible for us to find a flawless human until and unless we turn to Bible. For another, high ethical and moral standards sometimes go against effective leadership. For instance, in animal conservationists’ views, killing animals is an unforgivable crime. Should our public officials follow animal conservationists’ ethical and moral standards and forbid us from eating meat? If so, it would be bad news for many people, and I doubt whether the official would win out in the next election round.


To sum up, history and social experience inform us that high ethical and moral standards are important qualities an effective leader should possess, but a successful leadership requires more than that. On the other hand, it is enough for an effective leader to possess relative higher ethical and moral standards, while it is gratuitous and impossible for most of us to possess the highest ethical and moral standards.


[ Last edited by fishjoy on 2005-8-3 at 20:21 ]

petto_yUID: 176198

修改了一下，个人建议

Should a public official maintain the highest ethical and moral standards to be an effective leader? It is tempting to agree that the higher ethical and moral standards a public official, the better.(这里感觉有点不通，貌似offcial后该加have）High ethical and moral standards are absolutely necessary qualities a leader should possess, but it does not ensure a successful leadership, and we can not ignore other qualities of equal value that a effective leader should hold.


To begin with, by any means, High ethical and moral standards should always be listed in an effective leader’s moral guarantee. An official without high ethical and moral standards is doomed to fail to lead the public effectively, or even worse, to spell disaster on the public. Throughout history, innumerable examples have showed again and again how a society or a country is destroyed by immoral leader. We can pick up in Chinese history books a pile of names of immoral empires who imposed endless sufferings on his or her people and cause social disasters, such as Shang Zhou and Empire Sui Yang. In other words, it is never enough to require a public official to possess high ethical and moral standards. 但是有些表面上很成功的皇帝道德也很成问题啊，比如李世民杀兄弟，所以最好做一些让步．而且不一定得要highest　ethical啊，或者不要用皇帝的例子．其实觉得皇帝基本都道德品质不高的


However, maintaining the highest ethical and moral standards does not ensure a successful leadership. To be an effective leader, as we know, one should possess plenty of merits such as wisdom, competence, enlightenment, tolerance, shrewd, prowess as well as high ethical and moral standards. Take Confucius’ unsuccessful political life for example. As a philosopher and a moralist, he achieved great accomplishment undoubtedly; as a public official, he is actually unsuccessful. Nobody would doubt his high ethical and moral standards whether his contemporaries or later generations, but whether he possess enough political qualities is questionable according to the record of history. Thus high ethical and moral standards are not related to a successful leadership inevitably. 这里论证的逻辑觉得比较好


Furthermore, expectation and requirement that a public official should possess the highest ethical and moral standards is unpractical and reasonless. A small flaw can not overthrow one’s qualities as an effective leader and the greatness one has achieved. In my observation, many effective leaders devoted themselves to work so much that they often did not care about their families enough, which in moralists’ views, they do not possess the highest ethical and moral standards. Not spending enough time with family does not encumber one to be recognized as an effective leader. Nobody is as perfect as God. Possessing higher ethical and moral standards is sufficient for one to be an effective leader.（这里最后的结论和上面的论点感觉联系有点怪）


To sum up, history and social experience inform us that high ethical and moral standards are important qualities an effective leader should possess, but a successful leadership requires more than that. On the other hand, it is enough for an effective leader to possess relative higher ethical and moral standards, while it is gratuitous and impossible for most of us to possess the highest ethical and moral standards.

ryanqUID: 154025

However, maintaining the highest ethical and moral standards does not ensure a successful leadership. To be an effective leader, as we know, one should possess plenty of merits such as wisdom, competence, enlightenment, tolerance, shrewd, prowess as well as high ethical and moral standards. Take Confucius’ unsuccessful political life for example. As a philosopher and a moralist, he achieved great accomplishment undoubtedly; as a public official, he is actually unsuccessful. Nobody would doubt his high ethical and moral standards whether his contemporaries or later generations, but whether he possess enough political qualities is questionable according to the record of history. Thus high ethical and moral standards are not related to a successful leadership inevitably.

写得很不错。

倒数第二段有点乱。第一句没起到主题局的作用，最后一句与整段论证的刚好相反,例子也说的没有前两段精彩(有放水之嫌:))。可以把这个论证段的观点改成:sometimes the goal of politics may not be accord with moral standards that populace believe.

fishjoyUID: 2116013

根据同志们的建议，我对第三段进行了较大的改动（红字部分），大家再帮我看看:)
共同进步:handshake

liulin12369UID: 2112878

本来说我来改的，昨天晚上精神恍惚。
惭愧呀。。。。。写得不错，我发现红字部分由各地方的论证不算完美
in animal conservationists’ views, killing animals is an unforgivable crime. Should our public officials follow animal conservationists’ ethical and moral standards and forbid us from eating meat? If so, it would be bad news for many people, and I doubt whether the official would win out in the next election round.
这种说法给我一种不同人对道德有不同标准，领导者该如何取舍的感觉。并没有很有效的支持到此段的论点。这一段论点是极高的道德标准是不实际也是不合理的。保护动物，素食主义者不能算公认的极高的道德标准。而且这个也是为了保护稀有动物（个人观点），不一定出于对于生命的尊重和慈悲。

别的写得蛮好，有一定很值得学习就是结构清晰，匀称。每一段都都给我整齐的感觉。字数少但是清晰。
帮我看看也~~~同主题的，昨天晚上写到自己快放弃了。早上还是决定贴了让大家笑话了！

https://bbs.gter.net/viewthread.php?tid=310595

melinda2036UID: 2108044

有几个小问题
１　one should possess plenty of merits such as wisdom, competence, enlightenment, tolerance, shrewd, prowess as well as high ethical and moral standards. Take Confucius’ unsuccessful political life for example. 这个句子里shrewd 是形容词，不能和名词并列，还有后面一个possess多余，同一个句子结构里不能有２个动词
２expectation and requirement that a public official should possess the highest ethical and moral standards is unpractical and reasonless.虽然主语２个单词都是抽象名词，但也算是复合名词，后面动词应该是复数哦，
个人见解哈，大家看看

fishjoyUID: 2116013

Originally posted by melinda2036 at 2005-8-3 20:12
有几个小问题
１　one should possess plenty of merits such as wisdom, competence, enlightenment, tolerance, shrewd, prowess as well as high ethical and moral standards. Take Confucius’ unsuccessfu ...

谢谢你的中肯建议，我改过来了，在原文用蓝字标出了。:)