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Must the President Be a Moral Leader?

The question of whether a president should be a moral leader or not has been raised severally but always received mixed reactions from scholars and political activists. Some people argue that being a good president, one must be a moral leader, while other objects that notion claiming that being a moral leader and status in leadership are two different accounts. This paper will disagree with the claim that president must be a moral leader because president’s main call is to protect his/her country and people.

First, the president is surrounded by hostile people who sometimes need to be rebuked and humiliated to conform to the country's rules. Some politicians for example, tend to use public property for personal gain. President has the power to fire such people from office and sue them for misuses of public property. Such an act may seem immoral because firing such a politician would mean his/her family would suffer, but the outcome is positive since it protects the public property. According to the author of Applhaum, what is right for someone to do is determined by their kind of job. For example, a good lawyer may have the right to humiliate or bully witnesses deemed hostile to ensure fair evidence is given to the claim, and the culprit is judged fairly too. 

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