175"Scandals -- whether in politics, academia, or other areas -- can be useful. They focus our attention on problems in ways that no speaker or reformer ever could."
As a student grown up in Taiwan, I know what the scandal is and what the influence it has to a society, because the media and the newspaper are full of these matters. The scandals sound terrible and unhealthy generally, but in fact, I agree that it is a useful tool for correction and improvement of a society.
Although some people may think a scandal are negative at all, especially for personality, in my opinion, there are some positive aspects of it in the point of view to the entire society. In the process of the development of a society or a country, the scandals play an important role of correcting and admonishing to the dishonest ones. For example, when the research of stem-cell was burgeoning in 2006, Soul University took a leading place in the South Korean, as well as in the world. Many important and innovative essays were published, and the chairman of the research institution became a well-known people internationally. However, the scandals of the fake experiment data turned upside side down in a short time. This scandal made the Korean people embarrassed, warned the scientists to be honest, and corrected the inferior approach to the success in Korea. Some people lost everything in this scandal, but most people learned the lessons from it.
By the way, the other function of a scandal comes to my mind is the power to make people be aware of their behavior and speech. For a politician in the election, he dares not to do everything he wants without the considerations of the public and the media. This is also the benefits of a scandal to society.
In other words, the scandal is like a two-edge sword which can help people as well as damage them. For instance, the scandals are really unhealthy and misleading to our education. Before children can understand what is right or wrong and discern the correct lessons from the misbehaviors, they will misunderstand and learn something bad easily form the scandals which they heard. Moreover, they may think these conducts are normal, general, and even right, because they know these things well. According to the research I read recently, the concepts which are established in their childhood will influence their whole life and it is hard to be changed. Therefore, we should prevent our children from the misleading of the scandals in our society.
However, no one likes scandals, but our society needs it as a useful tool to allow our world become fair and honest.
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