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Topic：It is impossible for an effective political leader to tell the truth all the time. Complete honesty is not a useful virtue for a politician.
As a college student concerned about political issues, I agree with the point that it is impossible for an effective political leader to tell the truth all the time. Complete honesty is not a useful virtue for a politician.
Even though President Harry Truman once said, “Secrecy and a free, democratic government don’t mix,” I don’t think the public has to know every detail of everything. I can still remember what happened in my country, Taiwan, in 1996. 1996 was the year we had our first democratic presidential election. As all people know, China does not admit that Taiwan is an independent political and economical individual. Months before the election took place, China kept threatening Taiwan. They claimed that they set up some missiles that aimed Taiwan, and they could be fired anytime. The government decided to hold a press conference and tell the public about the missiles. It turned out that we had a huge emigration tide. Everyone wanted to escape from Taiwan and went to some strong or politically stable countries, such as the USA and New Zealand. We finished the presidential election with peace. China never came, and those people started to regret spending a large amount of money moving to a place they’re not familiar with.
In fact, the government officials should have thought through the whole incident carefully and estimated the results that might have been brought by it before they actually release the news. In the case I just mentioned, Taiwanese government raised an unnecessary panic, wasting people’s time and money, driving them away from their root, their home.
To be an effective political leader cannot be always honest; however, he should be honest most of the time, when people need to know the truth. Several years ago, the whole Asia suffered from the sever disease, SARS. The main reason why SARS spread so fast and so fiercely was because Chinese government was trying to hide the fact that people with SARS virus were contagious and SARS can cause people to death. As a result, more people got infected, and some of them passed away just because the dishonesty of Chinese government. Almost the same thing happened in Taiwan as well. He-ping hospital was the very first hospital that was sealed by the Health Department of the government. It was sealed because there were too many SARS patients. When the doctors found the first patient, they didn’t report to the Health Department and sought for help. More people got infected. They just had to be isolated to prevent from getting the virus to others.
A case like this may also happen to any of the government officials. If they’re not longsighted enough, tragedies can be made by even less-serious cases. An effective political leader should warn people before any bad thing occur.
Although people have the right to know what the government is doing, it is not necessary for them to know everything. Indeed, it is tough to predict or to estimate the result that an incident might cause; that is why we need to have a sagacious man to be our leader of the nation-- a great man who knows when to be completely honest, and when to lie if appropriate.
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終於開始練習寫作了
如果中間有錯字或是文法錯誤麻煩請告訴我
因為在考試的時候
只能想到什麼寫什麼
issue只有45分鐘可寫，arguement更是只有30分鐘
所以我沒辦法寫出優美的句子
只能把ideas都趕快帶出來
硬是湊到五百多字
所以唸這篇的時候可能不會有愉悅的感覺i'm sorry
喔對了
這篇不管誰不回
teh-teh不可以不回
聽到了沒teh？
你自己說過要改我的作文喔！
該不會後悔了吧？
哈，來不及了
As a college student concerned about political issues, I agree with the point that it is impossible for an effective political leader to tell the truth all the time. Complete honesty is not a useful virtue for a politician.
Even though President Harry Truman once said, “Secrecy and a free, democratic government don’t mix,” I don’t think the public has to know every detail of everything. I can still remember what happened in my country, Taiwan, in 1996. 1996 was the year we had our first democratic presidential election. As all people know, China does not admit that Taiwan is an independent political and economical individual. Months before the election took place, China kept threatening Taiwan. They claimed that they set up some missiles that aimed Taiwan, and they could be fired anytime. The government decided to hold a press conference and tell the public about the missiles. It turned out that we had a huge emigration tide. Everyone wanted to escape from Taiwan and went to some strong or politically stable countries, such as the USA and New Zealand. We finished the presidential election with peace. China never came, and those people started to regret spending a large amount of money moving to a place they’re not familiar with.
In fact, the government officials should have thought through the whole incident carefully and estimated the results that might have been brought by it before they actually release the news. In the case I just mentioned, Taiwanese government raised an unnecessary panic, wasting people’s time and money, driving them away from their root, their home.
To be an effective political leader cannot be always honest; however, he should be honest most of the time, when people need to know the truth. Several years ago, the whole Asia suffered from the sever disease, SARS. The main reason why SARS spread so fast and so fiercely was because Chinese government was trying to hide the fact that people with SARS virus were contagious and SARS can cause people to death. As a result, more people got infected, and some of them passed away just because the dishonesty of Chinese government. Almost the same thing happened in Taiwan as well. He-ping hospital was the very first hospital that was sealed by the Health Department of the government. It was sealed because there were too many SARS patients. When the doctors found the first patient, they didn’t report to the Health Department and sought for help. More people got infected. They just had to be isolated to prevent from getting the virus to others.
A case like this may also happen to any of the government officials. If they’re not longsighted enough, tragedies can be made by even less-serious cases. An effective political leader should warn people before any bad thing occur.
Although people have the right to know what the government is doing, it is not necessary for them to know everything. Indeed, it is tough to predict or to estimate the result that an incident might cause; that is why we need to have a sagacious man to be our leader of the nation-- a great man who knows when to be completely honest, and when to lie if appropriate.
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終於開始練習寫作了
如果中間有錯字或是文法錯誤麻煩請告訴我
因為在考試的時候
只能想到什麼寫什麼
issue只有45分鐘可寫，arguement更是只有30分鐘
所以我沒辦法寫出優美的句子
只能把ideas都趕快帶出來
硬是湊到五百多字
所以唸這篇的時候可能不會有愉悅的感覺i'm sorry
喔對了
這篇不管誰不回
teh-teh不可以不回
聽到了沒teh？
你自己說過要改我的作文喔！
該不會後悔了吧？
哈，來不及了
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