GMAT考试写作指导：Issue写作范文

　　64. I agree that business has some obligation to the community and society in which it

　　operates. As it stands, however, the statement permits one to conclude that this

　　obligation should take precedence over the profit objective. By allowing for this

　　interpretation, the speaker fails to appreciate the problems associated with shouldering

　　business with an affirmative duty to ensure the publics well being.

　　The primary reason why I agree business should have a duty to the public is that

　　society would be worse off by exonerating business from social responsibility. Left

　　entirely to their own self-interest, businesses pollute the environment, withhold

　　important product information from consumers, pay employees substandard wages, and

　　misrepresent their financial condition to current and potential shareholders. Admittedly,

　　in its pursuit of profit business can benefit the society as well―by way of more and

　　better-paying jobs, economic growth, and better yet lower-priced products. However,

　　this point ignores the harsh consequences―such as those listed earlier―of imposing no

　　affirmative social duty on business.

　　Another reason why I agree business should have a duly to the public is that

　　business owes such a duty. A business enters into an implied contract with the

　　community in which it operates, under which the community agrees to permit a

　　corporation to co business while the business implicitly promises to benefit, and not

　　harm, the community. This understanding gives rise to a number of social obligations on

　　the part of the business―to promote consumer safety, to not harm the environmental, to

　　treat employees and competitors fairly, and so on.

　　Although I agree that business should have a duty to serve the pubic, I disagree

　　that this should be the primarily objective of business. Imposing affirmative social

　　duties on business opens a Pandoras box of problems―for example, how to determine.

　　 what the public interest is in the first place, which public interests are most

　　important, what actions are in the public interest, and how business duty to the

　　public might be monitored and enforced. Government regulation is the only practical

　　way to deal with these issues, yet government is notoriously inefficient and corrupt; the

　　only way to limit these problems is to limit the duty of business to serve the public

　　interest.

　　In sum, I agree that the duty of business should extend beyond the simple profit

　　motive. However, its affirmative obligations to society should be tempered against the

　　pubic benefits of the profit motive and against the practical problems associates