Will ethical principles more or less stringent for public officials than are applied to ordinary citizens?
Will ethical principles more or less stringent for public officials than are applied to ordinary citizens?
ethical principles if, had to be the same, both for public officials to ordinary citizens, as far as privacy is concerned. It is estimated that public officials, for the functions they perform in the exercise of their posts, they are more exposed ("in case") to the comment, criticism and prosecution public opinion. In this scenario, public officials, are expected to be a "model" of people, so they require more than the average citizen. Hence we can infer that there is hypocrisy, and that those same ordinary citizens, politicians call for things that they do not.
As public morals, is understood as the set of actions morally valid, in a political context, to be followed by agents in this regard, as they perform their duties, as their actions and decisions have an impact on the common good therefore, its conduct must have a higher standard and level of demand. In this context
a paradox between what is morally right and politically valid, because many times, politicians must overcome their moral inhibitions for the benefit of the governed (Walzer, 2010). It presents a collision of principles and ideas that are personal and those that determine the political action, which produces the theme of "unclean hands" from which politicians guide their actions in the public domain.
Bellamy (2010) suggests that individuals and civil society share "the dirt" of doing politics by requiring it to look clean and give your support and the power of legitimacy when we know that in reality the political act can not be as clean.
in public decisions affect more people and is the difference in the ethical principles which are peculiar to public officials who should act for the general good. The public decision-making is more complex than in private. What leads you can not judge a politician in an ideal but based on reality. Political decisions are not fair because the company is hoping that political dirty hands on their behalf.
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