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A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So, as a police office
A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So, as a police office
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2013-03-09
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A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So, as a police officer, I have some urgent things to say to good people.
Days after days my men and I struggle to hold back a tidal wave of crime. Something has gone terribly wrong with our once-proud American way of life: It has happened in the area of values. A key ingredient is disappearing, and I think I know what it is: accountability.
Accountability isn’t hard to define. It means that every person is responsible for his or her actions and liable for their consequences.
Of the many values that hold civilization together: honesty, kindness, and so on, accountability may be the most important of all. Without it, there can be no respect, no trust, no law, and, ultimately, no society.
My job as a police officer is to impose accountability on people who refuse, or have never learned, to impose it on themselves. But as every policeman knows, external controls on people’s behavior are far less effective than internal restraints such as guilt, shame and embarrassment.
Fortunately there are still communities—smaller towns, usually—where schools maintain discipline and where parents hold up standards that proclaim: "In this family certain things are not tolerated, they simply are not done!"
Yet more and more, especially in our larger cities and suburbs, these inner restraints are loosening. Your typical robber has gone. He considers your property his property; he takes what he wants, including your life ff you enrage him.
The main cause of this break-down is a radical shift in attitudes. Thirty years ago, if a crime was committed, society was considered the victim. Now, in a shocking reversal, it’s the criminal who is considered victimized: by his underprivileged upbringing, by the school that didn’t teach him to read, by the church that failed to roach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didn’t provide a stable home.
I don’t believe it. Many others in equally disadvantaged circumstances choose not to engage in criminal activities. If we free the criminal, even partly, from accountability, we become a society of endless excuses where no one accepts responsibility for anything.
We in America desperately need more people who believe that the person who commits a crime is the one responsible for it.
选项
A、it’s unnecessary for good people to do anything in face of evil
B、it’s certain that evil will prevail if good men do nothing about it
C、it’s only natural for virtue to defeat evil
D、it’s desirable for good men to keep away from evil
答案
B
解析
综合推断题。智者的话表面意思是面对邪恶,好人什么都不必做,深层含义是:美德终将战胜邪恶。结合全文,作者发现越来越多的美国人似乎听信了这句话,对罪犯往往采取宽容的态度,导致犯罪率不断攀升。因此此话实际结果是好人无德邪恶必盛。故选B。
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