第一篇ISSUE。一些困惑：一定要举例吗？全说理可以吗？

LeoChou1991

3月31号考试，今天写了第一篇ISSUE，感觉我举不出什么很好的例子，而且似乎说理已经够我写到足够的字数了，是不是这样纯说理，会让别人觉得比较枯燥，而且缺乏说服力呢？
我的积累比较少，脑袋里的例子不多；语言也很稚嫩,没有修改，现在只是希望大方向选对，所以语言还没有考虑；希望能得到一些意见。


如果的确例子很重要，我就去多背一些
如果例子也一般，那我打算强化一下论证的逻辑全面性，还有自己的语言。


以下是我的第一篇习作
TOPIC:  It's impossible for aneffective political leader to tell the truth all the time. Complete honesty isnot a useful virtue for a politician.
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Someone has told me that a white lie is always better than a ruthless truth. I can't agree more with that. But when it comes to a politician leader, I believe it deserves further discussion.


Firstly, it's true that as an effective political leader, telling the truth all the time is almost impossible. It’s not his personality or character but the special position he resides in that should account for it.

Obviously, as a political leader, he must consider the problems in a wider perspective, which means all the citizens should be taken into consideration. Therefore under some occasions, for the sake of all the people, sacrifice must be made about the profits of the minority, which is usually unacceptable by the poor ones. Thus, in order to ensure the realization of his policy and to remain the stable community, some white lies are essential.

More than that, a politician is often in charge of the affairs with other nations, the competence between countries is obvious to see, and I'm pretty sure that as a politician, he must consider the benefit of his own country and mask some truth in the negotiations with other politicians, those of people whom we can't expect to think for the sake of our citizens.

However, though accepting this notion, I can't agree with the conclusion of the issue, which goes "Complete honesty is not a useful virtue for a politician". I believe there is no one who is fond of a lie. We always want others to be honest and hence trustworthy. Of course an honest politician leader will be favored more widely than one who can't utter his true ideas. If a politician is not honest, people won't vote for him and his career life will be ended. It’s especially the case with the help of Internet and wireless communication nowadays, if a politician's scandal is covered, then the whole nation will find it the next day and, in no time, he has to resign for his fault.

It's the same situation when it comes to the global affairs. I'm a hundred percent sure that not even one nation is willing to be an ally with a deceitful nation. Furthermore, a politician leader often represents his nation. He is just like a window through which other country's people can get familiar with this nation. Nobody would like to find the situation that his own country has been labeled "lie" all because of his untrustworthy behavior.

What's more, an obvious problem shows up concerning with the reasoning procedure the topic holds. Here we must give a definition of "virtue". As far as I'm concerned, a virtue is "the principles and rules that are accepted by all and thus should be kept in people's minds to guide our behavior".

Nevertheless, situations can't always get handled under the guide; there are often the cases when you are coerced by outer force. But can it be used as an evidence to prove principles to be wrong? Maybe you are late for a meeting because of a traffic jam, does it mean that you shouldn't keep on time? Maybe you have to disobey the law for a certain reason, does it mean that the law is useless and even wrong? I believe nobody will accept such a ridiculous reasoning.  But this issue topic utters such one. For the reasons above, I can't disapprove more with the conclusion that honest is not a cherished virtue.

All in all, principles should be held firmly even though occasionally they be disobeyed. We human beings have no excuse for deceit.

普渡哥

如果你的英文特别好，而且逻辑清晰，说理说得很清楚，没有问题。

例子可以帮别人理解我们的观点，也是用来证明我们的观点。

不用那么多段落，可以整合一下。

monkey2c

很多例子都是根据生活的来的嘛 只要你能说通就行了 特意背例子浪费时间

Fingerqz

全说理不容易说清楚吧

竹林中人

a hundred percent——fully会好点吧
例子并不是一定是实际发生过的，也可以是基于自己的生活经验而编造的，只要合理就好，另外我相信你肯定是有例子的，缺少的是对例子的挖掘，就是你没有对例子进行加工，很多例子不只是适用于一个主题一种场合，稍微改下侧重点，就会不一样了。比如这题：比如某恐怖组织恐吓美国总统，说将对某核设施实施袭击，你说要不要跟大众说，是立即说还是怎么的？还有抓捕本拉登，提前并没说，只是杀死了之后才说的，你说之前他要告诉普通大众吗?