UPSC 2022 GS-IV · 10 marks · 150 words
Besides domain knowledge, a public official needs innovativeness and creativity of a high order as well, while resolving ethical dilemmas. Discuss with suitable example.
What “Discuss” demands
present several distinct facets of the issue and connect them into an argument, giving the competing views real weight rather than one line each.
The characteristic failure: a list of points with no argument running through them.
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- Why creativity: real dilemmas are value-conflicts where every rule-following option wounds something — the third option must be invented
- Pattern example: relief-capture broken by token-plus-camera verification; encroachment resolved by participatory relocation instead of demolition standoff
- Real instances: Armstrong Pame's crowd-funded road; SR Sankaran's negotiated abolitions
- Guardrail: creativity in means, never in ends — constitutional values as the fixed stars
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