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195. The goal of politics should not be the pursuit of an ideal, but rather the search for common ground and reasonable consensus. 政治的目的不应该是追求一种理想，而是寻求共同点和合理的一致。 Disagree: Reasonable consensus and a political idea need not be mutually exclusive. The speaker’s position flies in the face of human nature and the nature of politics. A third problem with the speaker’s position is that it begs the question: What are the proper ideals for politicians? They have little to do with consensus, and everything to do with justice and fairness. Finally, lacking idealism a political leader will tend to seek compromise and reasonable consensus for its own sake. 统一和分歧之政治 195 The goal of politics should not be the pursuit of an ideal, but rather the search for common ground and reasonable consensus.政治的目标不应该是追求一个理想，而是寻找共同点和合情合理的共识（有点类似领导者的决定与民众的意见）（21＋2） 观点：Should…or…? 承认searching for common ground and reasonable consensus is a goal of politics, 但是也不能忽视the fact that the pursuit of an ideal是很多领导者的政治目标。而且这两者并不mutually exclusive。 Firstly, 一个国家的政治目标是使该国家能够正常的运行和发展，因此必须满足绝大多数人的利益，也就是寻找普遍合理的大多数人的意见the goal for the politics of a nation is to ensure that the nation runs with a minimum of contention and develops in a favorable direction. Thus, government needs to meet the needs of the majority of its people and search for common ground and reasonable consensus。如果，总是忽略人民意愿与需要，可能会使决策脱离现实意义，进而导致人民的反对。所以，寻找共同点和合情合理的共识是政治目标 然而，reasonable consensus and a political ideal need not be mutually exclusive.比如对于an ideal of peace，是the goal of politics, 同时它也是所有民众的reasonable consensus。（北范） 但是由于民众只是和视野的局限性，有时他们的意见对国家和他们自己都是有害的，政治家们应当保持清醒。However, the ideas of one segment of the public, no matter how vocal(无论怎样大声), sometimes does harm to the whole nation as well as themselves as a result of their limited knowledge and viewpoint. Therefore, it is politicians who must remain clear-headed(形容词 清醒 facing the need to make right choices. 112. Some educational systems emphasize the development of students capacity for