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8. It is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public.
When looking back, people would be surprised at the fact that the popular belief of being informed with any information in the society is often disobeyed. There are many times, however, that certain information are withheld to the public in the purpose of serving the interest of the people. Hence, I agree with the speaker that it is often necessary for the political leaders to withhold information from the public.
Considering various kinds of pressers from all levels of society, when making some crucial decisions, it is obviously necessary for political leaders to withhold information from the public. Compared to political leaders who target at the benefit of the society as a whole, individual tends to be near-sighted with merely bonus driven motives. For instance, facing the embarrassment of the gloomy situation of hundreds of public-founding enterprises in China, Chinese political leaders made an immediate decision to transform the traditional collectivism to a more effective system. Such renovation would surely sacrifice some people's interest for they could no longer be fed without working but instead been laid off, yet, be beneficial for the interest of the whole society. Therefore, political leaders withheld the information to the public until the day the renovation was reinforced. In such cases, those seemingly opaqueness of information is, in fact, serving for the best of the society.
The steadiness of the society and the serenity of people's life are based on the healthy circumstance of the society. The dissemination of certain information may threaten public safety and perhaps national security as well. Withholding the information from the public, on the contrary, is conducive to the sound development of the society. The just past SARS disease is a case in point. In the very beginning of the emergence of SARS, the leaders excluded the public from knowing it, thus gave experts some precious time to research on this odd disease. Suppose the leaders presented the information on the very moment the disease appeared, experts would hardly have any time to do the research and investigation but be obsessed with people's perplexed questions and dreadful worries. Another instance is the top secret of a country, like the technology of making missiles. If all the people have access to this information, the respectively peaceful life we have now would be out of the question.
Admittedly, the opaqueness of some information must be within a limit. Withholding all kinds of information means monopoly. Moreover, as the hosts of the country and the society, people have rights in knowing what has happened to them and what is going to happen in the future. In this way, people can better protect themselves from the impairness of their properties and their privileges as well.
A wise political leader is one who can evaluate and anticipate the consequences of revealing certain information and then informing the public at the most suitable time and occasion.
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