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TOPIC: ISSUE43 - "To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards."
According to this statement,the speaker asserts that a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards to be an effective leader.As for me,I agree insofar that it is important to keep the high ethical and moral standards for a public official.However,the speaker begs question by overemphasizing that the highest ethical and moral standards are neccessary for an effective leader.
Admittedly,only when a public official maintain the high ethical and moral standards,he or she could be respected by the masses.If we cast a look back at the long history of human beings,the masses' opinions about leaders are really different between the leaders who maintain high ethical and moral standards and the ones who do not.For example,Hitler,lanced the second world war in twentith centrury,brough great calamity to all the people around the world.During the war,hundreds of thousands of people suffered from hungry,diseases,deaths and poverty.At the even worse,for the reason that he deemed the Jew as the inferior nation on the earth,thus he ordered to persecute the Jew.No words can take place of the unbelievable shock when we heard of the cruel behaviors that the Hilter's accessory did to the Jew in .Hitler is a leader who are censured by all the people longing for peace.However,the other German leader,premier Willy Brandt, is in violent and lovely contrast with Hitler.In 1970,Willy Brandt,sorry for what the German did in the control of Hitler,kneeled down before Warsaw's Memorial of the Mudered Jew,and apologized before all the people around the world.His high moral standards win our forgivness and respect.
What is more,it is fairly clear that high ethical and moral standards are helpful to prevent the leaders to abuse their authorities.Providing that a leader is greedy ,selfish,brutal,haughty,how can we expect that he or she will engage in doing well for the masses.If a person always considers from his or her own interest,he or she as a leader undoubtedly will abuse the authority to gain more wealth.There is no where more true than on the scandal of misappropriation of the social security fund in 2007.Some Shanghai government officials take a large number of the fund into their own purses.their deed can be attributed to the lack of morality.
However,the official cannot be equal to moralist.In this sense,it is not necessory to require officials to maintein the highest ethical and moral standards at all time.After all,we will,more or less,make mistakes.Take Clinton for example.No one can neglect the achievements he got during his service as American president,which include the high rate of economic development,the low rate of unemployment,the steady diplomatic relationship with the other countries.Though his sex scandal manifests that he does not own the highest moral standards,it cannot deny the fact that Clinton is one of the greatest presidents in American history.
Deep down,while it is possible for an individual to behave according to the highest ethinic and moral standards,we should not lose sight of the fact that it is too strict for a leader to address any problems following the highest criterion.For a leader has to coordinate every department,balance every aspect's interest,the highest moral standards to some extent does not mean the best choice,and relating the efficiency.For example,when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake roked Wenchuan County in Sichuan Province,China, numerous victims were waiting to relief workers,otherwise they would die in a short period.However,the airman were threatened by death if they landed on the disaster area immediately after the quake.That is where the rub is---both aspects involved the danger of life.How to choice according to the highest moral standards?I doubt there is an answer.Therefore,the leader at this time should weigh the interests of all the aspects,then make a relatively right choice which maintains the balance of every aspects to the maximum.
In sum,I concede that an effective leader should maintain the high ethical and moral standards which allow the leaders' prestige and prevent them abuse the authority.Notheless,the speaker's claim lay too much on moral standards.There is no need to require the leader to keep the highest moral standards all the time.A leader will inevitably make mistake.And in some occasions,it is impossible to make a choice according to highest moral criterion.
TOPIC: ARGUMENT76
In this argument,the arguer concludes that Luxess,a kind of face cream,is truly effective in improving the condition of facial skin.To justify the argument,the arguer provides the result of a study on a group of volunteers who were required to wash their faces with mild soap and then apply Luxess in a month.Moreover,most volunteers reported a marked improvement in the way their skin looked and felt.However,careful analysis of this argument would reveal that it suffers from several critical flaws and therefore is unconvincing.
To begin with,the major problem of the argument lies on the study conducted in a group of volunteers.First,how many volunteers does the study involve?Maybe the number of the volunteeres is too small for a scientific study to make the result dubious.Second,the arguer fails to provide any information about these volunteers.For example,how about the weather where they live?How about their skin itself before they use the face cream?I mean,maybe,the weather is mild and humid that is good for skin,and the volunteers's skin itself is good enough,therefore,the improvement has nothing to do with the face cream.In addition,as we all know,the condition of skin has something to with people's emotion.If the volunteers beared heavy stress before they use Luxess,but their mood turned to be better in the period of study.If so,the result is not as trustful as the arguer asserts.
What is more,even if the factors mentioned above are considered by the arguer,the study suffers several other problems.For example,A one-month is not a particularly long time for the arguer to draw the conclusion that Luxess does good to the people's skin.What is highly possible that Luxess will has some side-effect on its users after two or three months later.Furthermore,the arguer does not provide the criterion to assess the condition of skin.It is arbitrary to trust the result of the study only by the subjective feelings of those volunteers.
Additonally,it is quite possible that the volunteers have a same kind of skin problem.So the face cream maybe has effect to its users only when their skin has the same problem as the volunteers' skin does.Moreover,as the volunteers washed their faces with mild soap before applied Luxess,we have to doubt that it is the mild soap,not Luxess,that contributes to their improvement of skin. Without eliminating these possibilities,the arguer cannot bolster his conclusion that Luxess does good to people's skin.
In summary,this argument has several patent fallacies which render it logically unacceptable as it stands.To strengthen the argument,the arguer would have to provide more information about the study.For example,the number of the volunteers,the environment,their emotion as well as the condition of their skin before using Luxess.Furthermore,the arguer should have to consider the other factors which may lead to the same result.Then the period must be long enough to exclude the possible side effect. |
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