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Would you also kindly rate this essay out of 6? It was the same prompt question. Thank you! Essay: The statement mentions the two characteristics--sound moral judgment and one's ability to maintain the respect of peers. While acknowledging that the two characteristics are important, the statement puts a higher rank of the former, which is to maintain one's respect, above the latter, which is to have a sound moral judgment. I mostly agree with the statement. However, I will argue that the two are very much correlated, like two sides of the same coin. In other words, one's moral judgment will greatly affect one's reputation and respect. We will therefore look at the two characteristics in more detail. First, a leader's moral judgment is in itself an ability to make a good decision on behalf of the people he or she is leading. For instance, in biblical history, King Solomon was known as a wise leader. When Solomon was faced with a problem of two women claiming that a child boy is hers, he must have the ability to discern and decide the best outcome. He decided to test the two women by commanding the child to be divided into two. It turned out that the woman who was the real mother gave up the right to be with the child and interjected the command for the child to be slaughter into two. By this test, Solomon who was a leader of these two women made a revealing trial and able to judge the situation. Consequently, this sound moral judgment drew attention and respect from other people and leaders. By this example, I am showing that the first characteristic is tied to the second characteristic. The second characteristic, the ability to maintain respect from one's peers, is theoretically can be done over time through a pattern of sound moral judgment. We see this in real leaders. One easily loses his or her reputation as an effective leader when committing immoral behaviors or judgments. A well-known political leader, such as Al Franken, who is charged with sexual misconduct loses his fame in an instant. The allegation of sexual harassment questions the moral judgment of a leader and consequently jeopardizes his reputation and respect from his or her peers. The examples given above show that the two important leadership characteristics work tandemly. They are not working antithetically nor concessively. It is impossible to earn the respect of one's peers without one's sound moral judgment. Therefore the argument is not accurately stated as the two are equally important and are two sides of the same coin.