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TOPIC: ISSUE212 - "If a goal is worthy, then any means taken to attain it is justifiable."
WORDS: 592
TIME: 00:56:42
DATE: 2009/8/3 0:05:31
提纲:1.这个作为一种倡导,其内在的浮躁情绪和不合理性只会激化社会矛盾,使社会问题更加严重。
2.在作为一种价值判断的意义上,人们首先会想到的就是一些社会上的极端行为。但这只是很浅的层面上的。
3一些人会说,从逻辑上看,“任何方式都合理”并不可以导出“极端的自私的手段最有效”,由于现在人们间的相互作用越来越强,在“任何方式都合理”的基本假设下,也可以认为折中的办法是最好的。
4.即使是上面这一论断也是没什么可取之处的,因为从逻辑上说,这个命题首先就引入了“值得”这一概念,而由于不同地区民族国家的文化历史宗教等不同的原因,他们的价值观也不同,对于同一件事到底值得不值得的判断也不同,所以这个命题即使只作为一个价值判断,也不能帮我们缓和任何矛盾,解决任何问题。
总之……………………
Be worthy or not? That is the question. The statement above looks strong but is born disabled and sounds ridiculous. At the first glance of this slogan-looked saying, one may feels queasy about the word "any", but I somehow would like to pay more attention on the word "worthy" to conceal its unreasonablity.
Firstly, as an advocacy, this statement was inherently bond with the fickleness and a sense of haste. Once the statement was ratified, our society which was already groaning under the stupendous pressure and the accelerating pace will suffer more. Our youth would think that to gain higher grades, cheating is justifiable; our bosses would consider that to gain higher profits, more exploitation is justifiable...all the situation mentioned above will only deteriorate the situation and lead to more suffering in our lives.
Apart from being a advocacy this statement is born malformed as I mentioned. Everyone with a clear mind, when heard about this proposition, might associate this idea with extreme actions. For example, a poor man under tremendous social and psychological pressure determined himself to robbing the bank in order to feed his hungry kids, which appears frequently on the screens nowadays; or the extremists force the airplane to hit into the once-existed World Trade Center for maybe some unknown "glorious" goals and finally create the huge tragedy. But logically this was too superficial for this proposition.
A reasonable mind would argue that everybody as irreplaceable components, in a certain degree, is connected. To achieve certain worthy goal, that any method is justifiable is not equivalent to "we should take the extreme ways to attain our goals". And as we interact, immediately or indirectly, with all the fellow members in this world, to some extent known as "six degrees of separation" , no one can get access to infinite resources and do whatever he wants. Maybe we should reevaluate the statement, maybe it only means the basic assumption is “any means is justifiable” but we should take the modest ones because they are of the highest efficiency,
However this somewhat more profound proposition is no better than the former one, in that it do not hit the very point: worthy. How can we define this word? As it is self-evident that different areas, races, nations hold different attitude towards one thing as the history, culture, religion together shape different value system. In this era of globalization, the problem which the whole world confronted together are, for instance, culture confliction, which include assimilation of exotic culture and value and the loss of traditions and conventions; profit confliction, namely, the rich ones want to exploit the poor ones' raw material and food resources therefore perpetuate their once-built position in the economic world. These problems are the largest obstacles in our way to the bright future as a whole human entity, and therefore must be overcome. The spirit of author's statement brought a vital confusion by the word worthy: when two value systems opposed against each other, what is right and what is wrong? In such conflictions, each side will not compromises as its goal is worthy. Finally this solvable situation becomes a deadlock, no one can benefit from it and the future go dimmer. It's surely a bad scenario for our now endeavor of building a global society, and it’s only consequence would be deterioration of this mess.
In sum, this statement is neither beneficial as an advocacy nor useful to guide our behavior as a value judgment. All it could bring were conflictions and confusions and is itself a paradox. |
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