AI-34 All citizens should be required to perform a specified amount of public service. Such service would benefit not only the country as a whole but also the individual participants.” Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading.
Some advocate that all citizens should be required to perform a specified amount of public service, because such service will benefit not only the country as a whole but also the individual its-self. I do agree that the public service will benefit a lot, but if some one insists that everyone should be required to implement it, may be he should think it again.
First we should never forget that, it is the local government, rather than individuals, should take full responsibilities of the public service. A very important role the government should play in public affairs is maintaining the public service. To achieve this, the government should employ some skilled workers to perform such public service, instead asking individual citizen to do such job.
A second reason why it should not be a requirement for individual to carry out public service is that the citizens, by means of taxes, have already paid for that service. When they enjoy such public service, for example, walking on a well-cleaned street, crossing the crossroad with the assistant of policemen or the signal lights, he could say, I deserve that public service, since I have already paid for it through my tax pills. Hence, if we still require every citizen to perform such public service with a specified mount, it may be not justified for them, since even without some public service carry out by themselves, they have already the right to enjoy it.
Now we can conclude that it is not a proper policy to require individual people to offer the public service, though it benefits everyone. It is the local government that should arrange a detailed plan to offer public service to citizens, and make the tax payment of the citizens worthy.
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