ISSUE 104 求拍~~

dengjia

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



Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with

the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most

compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.

The statement claims that the highest ethical and moral standards must be maintained by a public official to be an effective leader. Surely, maintaining ethical and moral standards is the basic element a good person should own not to say a public official. However, in my view, to be an effective leader, a public official should maintain some, but not the highest, ethical and moral standards, and some other elements required to them.



An effective public official should maintain some ethical and moral standards to win publics' belief and credit. If a public official speaks ribald sentences and do some irreverent action to his parents, his or her image would be destroyed. And he would not become an effective leader. An emperor of Tang Dynasty said (and I paraphrase) that water can make boats work, and also reverse them, in which water here means people, and boats officials.


However, it is not necessary for a public official to maintain the highest moral standards in some particular situation. And the definition of the highest moral and ethical standards should be discussed in different situation. On the one hand, when the highest moral standards are looked as an enthusiasm to the motherland, the public official should maintain the standards, such as when facing a stronger country, the public official should not betray his or her own country to get some individual interests. On the other hand, when the definition of highest ethical and moral standards is to sustain the individual good characteristics such as honest, piety, it is not necessary to act according to these standards. When stability and to boom the country, a public official may not totally maintain these standards. For example, when SARS, a fatal disease, comes to China, the relative official should not inform the public the bad side of it. On the contrary, he or she should inform the progress of dealing it. According to this definition, this action may violate the highest ethical and moral standards to some extent.



What's more, there are other elements should a public official own to be an effective leader. For example, the ability to make people's life more affluent, the credit derives from action what has promised.

(I can only get these 367 words in 40min, how to accelerate the speed?)

lukebrehm

1. should own, not to mention a public official. -rather than- should own not to say a public official.
2. standards, as well as some other elements that may be required for them. -rather than- standards, and some other elements required to them.
3. to win public's trust and credit. -rather than- to win publics' belief and credit.
4. official uses ribald words or is irreverent to his parents,  official speaks ribald sentences and do some irreverent action to his parents,
5. his or her image would be destroyed. ----???? Its not all about the image! I guess it may be hard for a lot of Chinese people to understand this but its about how best the official can serve the people and "be an effective leader". The phrase "effective leader" implies not about how he/she can further his/her career rather that he/she would be effective in what he/she does.
6. in some particular situation(s).
7. On the one hand, when the highest moral standards are looked as an enthusiasm to the motherland,  ----- " highest moral standards" is not "enthusiasm to the motherland". Here is the definition of the word:

— adjective
1.     concerned with or relating to human behavior, esp the distinction between good and bad or right and wrong behavior: moral sense
2.     adhering to conventionally accepted standards of conduct
3.     based on a sense of right and wrong according to conscience: moral courage ; moral law
4.     having psychological rather than tangible effects: moral support
5.     having the effects but not the appearance of (victory or defeat): a moral victory ; a moral defeat
6.     having a strong probability: a moral certainty
7.     law  (of evidence, etc) based on a knowledge of the tendencies of human nature

— noun
8.     the lesson to be obtained from a fable or event: point the moral
9.     a concise truth; maxim
10.     ( plural ) principles of behavior in accordance with standards of right and wrong

So in other words your saying that you would rather have officials in China who lie, steal, cheat, take bribes and much more for their own success and enjoyment??? I don't understand your logic here if there is even any at all.

dengjia

I wanna say that according to different definition of highest ethical and moral standards, the leader should not be so obstinate . For example, a public offical may not infrom people all the ture statistics and information that may harm the stablility and safety of a nation. How to definite this action? Maybe we could not look it as cheat but as an effective way to protect our country.

I think I've know your meaning. Would it be better to adjust the structure of my issue to first agreeing the point of view of the issue, and then citing examples and then pointed out  maintaining these highest standards not means to a rigid and not sophisticated way.

dengjia

Thank you very much, I think I should find some appropriate ways to explicate my thoughts.

lukebrehm

This is all a matter of your view on the issue but I just wanted to let you know how it sounds to me, so that you can find the error in your presentation of the argument (unless that is what you really meant, in which case you don't have to change anything).