Some people believe that government officials must carry out the will of the people they serve. Others believe that officials should base their decisions on their own judgment.
In whatever forms of the governments, the governments are essentially accountable to the public they serve, because they are, in most cases around the world, elected democratically or chosen from the merit-based examinations. In democracy, the notion that everyone is free to exercise their powers and self-will is acceptable to most people. The author of this prompt presents two contrasting views of people about government officials, with regard to their decision-making. I align with the view that, the government officials should carry out the will of the public they serve because of two reasons, yet some exceptions are present.
To begin, the officials elected or chosen to the public posts are representative of the public (or constituencies) they are elected by or chosen from, and should therefore serve to the will of their people. In democracy, people have rights to elect their own representatives to important public posts such as Mayor of the City, the President, the Governor and likewise, who in turn, pledge to dedicate themselves to meeting the demands of the public and aligning to their sentiments and opinions. If they do not align to the popular sentiments and act willfully, there may arise dissatisfaction towards the authorities and may even call forth some serious rebellions in extreme cases. A state of rule and order is probably achieved if the people comply to the laws and orders of the state, and the leaders or the officials are considerate about the desires, needs and requirements of its public.
Taking decisions based on their own judgement by the public representatives can even bring forth some serious - and unwanted - consequences in the society that can disturb peace and harmony, and even impede the social growth. For example, the public in Lebanon came to the streets, giving rise to city-wide protests and riots leading to destruction last month, in response to a series of incompetent attempts by the government in handling of the Corona Virus pandemic and a long existing corrupted reputation of their officials. If those officials had served the will of the public they serve, the country would probably not have come across such a consequence.
However, the government officials, in some cases, may bank on their judgements to take some hard decisions. The public has some prejudices and can sometimes be driven emotionally into asking some unjust services from their authority. For example, if a group protests in favor of freeing a criminal from the police custody - which can be the case some times because the public may be sentimental - but a government official in charge of the case would sound more rational if he did not yield to the public demands.
In conclusion, since the government officials are endowed with power and authority, they are expected to serve to the will of the people they serve, and not merely act on their judgements, while in some cases, doing so can save them from embarrassment.
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
...sons, yet some exceptions are present. To begin, the officials elected or chose...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, likewise, may, so, therefore, while, for example, in conclusion, such as, in most cases, in some cases, with regard to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 19.5258426966 72% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 18.0 12.4196629213 145% => OK
Conjunction : 26.0 14.8657303371 175% => OK
Relative clauses : 5.0 11.3162921348 44% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 77.0 58.6224719101 131% => OK
Nominalization: 12.0 12.9106741573 93% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2483.0 2235.4752809 111% => OK
No of words: 486.0 442.535393258 110% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10905349794 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69525374022 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.92290855467 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 239.0 215.323595506 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.491769547325 0.4932671777 100% => OK
syllable_count: 777.6 704.065955056 110% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 2.0 6.24550561798 32% => OK
Article: 12.0 4.99550561798 240% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 10.0 4.38483146067 228% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 20.2370786517 74% => Need more sentences. Double check the format of sentences, make sure there is a space between two sentences, or have enough periods. And also check the lengths of sentences, maybe they are too long.
Sentence length: 32.0 23.0359550562 139% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 63.7405853615 60.3974514979 106% => OK
Chars per sentence: 165.533333333 118.986275619 139% => OK
Words per sentence: 32.4 23.4991977007 138% => OK
Discourse Markers: 9.06666666667 5.21951772744 174% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 10.2758426966 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.34170772367 0.243740707755 140% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.125264502141 0.0831039109588 151% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0647255990479 0.0758088955206 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.212502619556 0.150359130593 141% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0557425523283 0.0667264976115 84% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 14.1392134831 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 39.0 48.8420337079 80% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.8 12.1743820225 130% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.95 12.1639044944 106% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.96 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 115.0 100.480337079 114% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.5 11.8971910112 122% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.8 11.2143820225 132% => OK
text_standard: 15.0 11.7820224719 127% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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