1.Machiavelli says: A prince, therefore, need not necessarily have all the good qualities I mentioned above, but he should certainly appear to have them. Machiavelli also says: A prince, then, must be very careful not to say a word which does not seemed inspired by the five qualities I mentioned earlier. To those seeing and hearing him, he should appear a man of compassion, a man of good faith, a man of integrity, a kind and a religious man. And there is nothing so important as to seem to have this last quality.
2.However, most of us may not be able to agree with Machiavelli on such an important point. It is against our values as modern men. We would feel unsafe to have bad people as our leaders. Instead of giving us protection, bad leaders would cause harm to us.
3.But some of us may think that what Machiavelli says is correct. What is important is that the people should be happy to be under his rule. It does not matter whether or not the prince has good or bad qualities. The end justifies the means.
4. Since we are the one to decide what kind of leaders we want to manage our affairs, we must be responsible in making our decision. Our decision will not only affect us, but it will also affect our children and their children and so on ad infinitum.
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