aGMAT考试写作指导：Issue写作范文五九

　　59. Juvenile delinquency is clearly a serious social problem. Whether businesses must

　　become more involved in helping to prevent the problem depends, however, on the

　　specific business--whether it is culpable in creating the problem and whether its owners

　　collective conscience calls for such involvement.

　　Although parents and schools have the most direct influence on children,

　　businesses nonetheless exert a strong, and often negative, influence on juveniles by way

　　of their advertisements and of the goods they choose to produce. For example, cigarette

　　advertisements aimed at young people, music and clothing that legitimize gang sub-

　　culture, and toys depicting violence, all sanction juvenile delinquency. In such cases

　　perhaps the business should be obligated to mitigate its own harmful actions―for

　　example, by sponsoring community youth organizations or by producing public-interest

　　ads.

　　In other cases, however, imposing on a business a duty to help solve juvenile

　　delinquency or any other social problem seems impractical and unfair. Some would

　　argue that because business success depends on community support, businesses have an

　　ethical duty to give back to the community―by donating money, facilities, or services

　　to social programs. Many successful businesses―such as Mrs. Fields. Ben Jerrys,

　　and Timberland―have embraced this philosophy. But how far should such a duty

　　extend, and is it fair to impose a special duty on businesses to help prevent one specific

　　problem, such as juvenile delinquency? Moreover, businesses already serve their

　　communities by enhancing the local tax base and by providing jobs, goods and services.

　　In the final analysis, while businesses are clearly in a position to influence young

　　people, whether they should help solve juvenile delinquency is perhaps a decision best

　　left to the collective conscience of each business.