should leaders prioritize virtue or effectiveness? Defend your choice with at least one specific reason.​

Political and social leaders should prioritize effectiveness over virtue. This is so because virtue, although in the vast majority of cases is correct and in accordance with the moral and ethical standards of a society, does not always obtain tangible positive results for citizens or members of a certain group.

Effectiveness, on the other hand, although it is more lax in terms of ethical and moral standards (often disregarding certain values in order to obtain positive results), it obtains better results that positively affect people's lives.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

explanation:

listed the works which were

banned by the church=index librorum prohibitorum

questioned many tenets

of the catholic church=

martin luther’s

ninety-five

theses

an authoritative treatise

on witchcraft=mallets maleficarum

a set of meditation, prayer, and

contemplation exercises to

strengthen one’s relationship

with god=spiritual exercises

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