Although sound moral judgment is an important characteristic of an effective leader, it is not as important as a leader’s ability to maintain the respect of his or her peers.
Modern society expects a lot out of its leaders. Those members of society deemed worth to lead are expected to be at once effective, amicable, faultless, and to have sound judgement. However, to say that one's judgement is only sound because of one's strong moral sense is to discredit the complexity of the act of judging. Morality, especially in our multicultural, swiftly globalizing world, varies from person to person. To say that a leader has "sound moral judgement" would mean very different things about a leader in India and a leader in The United States because of the significant cultural differences between these two societies. As such, a leader ought to focus on relating to the people around them, respecting the differences between them and their potentially different conceptions of moraltiy rather than focus on maintaining their own personal morality regardless of the circumstances they face.
The fact of the matter is that there is no single correct system of morality. To use a contemporary example, the debate around abortion rights in the United States is carried out between two political groups with completely different ideas about whether abortion is a "moral" act or not. The conservative side of the argument asserts that an unborn child has as much right to a life as its mother, and as such should not be taken out of the world before it has had a chance to realize its potential. To do so would be, to the conservative, immoral across the board. But one aspect of the liberal counterargument is that women who have become pregnant because of an event that was out of their hands such as molestation or rape ought to have the right to decide whether or not they want to commit to raising a child, a task which will dominate a significant portion of their lives. What should the political leader legislate in a society such as this, where two groups have genuine differences of opinion as to what constitutes a "moral" approach to reproductive rights? Were the leader to side with the conservatives, he would, in their eyes, have "sound moral judgement", but would be morally bankrupt to a liberal. As such, a leader should not pretend to know what the "moral" thing to do is, but should instead attempt to take into account the opinions of those around him. It is much more important to be repsected as a person who listens to all opinions and takes everything into account when making decisions than as a person who is "moral".
Indeed, one could postulate that judgement itself ought to be completely separate from morality. What about decisions a leader must make regarding issues which are entirely separate from the moral realm? To give an example, what would the leader of "sound moral judgement" decide in regard to a secular issue, such as taxing corporations, or funding a space program? One could stretch the definition of morality to say that even decisions regarding corporations are moral decisions, since corporations are composed of people, and people are the matter morality really concerns itself with. But do considerations such as this not have the potential to fog the mind of the leader, to make mountains of molehills and prevent them from effectively discharging the responsibilites of their office because of philosophical questions which are but so much smoke, so many mirrors? The leader has one concern, which is to lead. He/she does not lead concepts, or corporations, but people. As such, he/she ought to keep their focus on people, and people alone.
One could object and say that one cannot focus on people without simoultaenously focusing on the concepts of right and wrong, what is good and what is bad, which would fall within the realm of morality. But again, the line between good and bad is relative to one's cultural background and personal beliefs. Beneath the leader sit a myriad of individuals, all of whom deserve respect and appreciation, respect and appreciation they might be denied should the leader decide that a Christian morality is superior to, say, a Hindu one. The leader is, at the end of the day, a person as much as the people whom they lead. Should they not then make it their goal to be the best person they can be, to respect and to be respected, and to understand that what is good and what is bad changes depending on who you ask?
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Consider using 'the surrounding people'?
Suggestion: the surrounding people
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...fferent ideas about whether abortion is a 'moral' act or not. The conse...
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Message: Perhaps you can shorten this phrase to just 'whether'. It is correct though if you mean 'regardless of whether'.
Suggestion: whether
... rape ought to have the right to decide whether or not they want to commit to raising a child,...
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Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, really, regarding, so, then, as to, such as, in regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 36.0 19.5258426966 184% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.4196629213 193% => OK
Conjunction : 30.0 14.8657303371 202% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 49.0 33.0505617978 148% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 114.0 58.6224719101 194% => OK
Nominalization: 15.0 12.9106741573 116% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3657.0 2235.4752809 164% => OK
No of words: 740.0 442.535393258 167% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.94189189189 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.21564387372 4.55969084622 114% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98743900672 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 323.0 215.323595506 150% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.436486486486 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1149.3 704.065955056 163% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 11.0 4.99550561798 220% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 13.0 1.77640449438 732% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 12.0 4.38483146067 274% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 26.0 23.0359550562 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.3370015263 60.3974514979 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 130.607142857 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 26.4285714286 23.4991977007 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.67857142857 5.21951772744 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 7.80617977528 51% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.83258426966 166% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.216416384951 0.243740707755 89% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.059162434664 0.0831039109588 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0611885662118 0.0758088955206 81% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.138768233091 0.150359130593 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0332785038046 0.0667264976115 50% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.1 14.1392134831 107% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 45.09 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.67 12.1639044944 96% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.08 8.38706741573 96% => OK
difficult_words: 148.0 100.480337079 147% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.4 11.2143820225 111% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 30 minutes.
Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.