issue8 Gter四月''无名''小组第29次作业-园有桃

yytmywhUID: 2188847

8. "It is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public."
对于政治领导者来说，向人大众隐瞒信息通常是必要的，甚至有益的。
少数和多数的关系之true lies, the truth is out there.

隐瞒信息是有益的
完全不隐瞒信息是有害的
然而过分地隐瞒信息也不行, 人民有权利得到信息

The speaker asserts that, as political leaders, it is often necessary or even desirable to withhold information from the public. While I contend that public have their rights of getting information from their government, I agree with the speaker otherwise. In actual fact, I would go further by contending that withholding information from the public could be beneficial to society, and that totally open the information to the public would be harmful to society.

As what comes first, in sometimes it is better for the government to keep the public from getting certain information. To some extent, someone in the public does not have enough capability to understand and make best use of information given by politicians. Too much information would do harm to, at least mislead the public to do something wrong. So government would do something to withhold information to keep society harmony. For instance, two thousand years ago the King named Ying Zheng in China burnt tons of books and buried a myriad of scholars alive, and that event is considered as a huge thing which unified people and culture at that time. Therefore, withholding information to some proper extent would be beneficial but not harmful to society.

What is more, to tell the public everything totally without any withholding would cause some problems in society. Not only because of the public’s incapability of understanding those information, but it is also dangerous for some information, which should be kept secretly, to spread out, or even to be known by certain group against the nation. It is often seen that government withhold some information, telling that there would be something dangerous happening, to keep public from panic. In addition, there are a lot of secrets belonging to one nation, and spread such information through the whole nation could threat the development of society.

Last but not least, the benefit from withholding information from the public does not lead to the conclusion that the government should withhold all information or as much as possible from the public. To know some of what government have done, what government is doing, and what government is going to do are, to some extent, basic rights of citizens in society. Besides, withholding information too much would lead to some bureaucracy and citizens’ unconcerned about events happening in the nation. And less people would give proper advises and suggestions to political leaders. Hence, the public still need to get certain information, which would not cause panic in public and danger to whole nation, to get to know better about their society.

To sum up, I agree that the public have rights of getting some information from government and political leaders. Understandably, the public, as tax payers, have their rights to see who is leading them, at least what they are paying for. If what have been discussed above are considered thoroughly, it is safe to come to the conclusion that it is often necessary or even desirable to withhold information from the public.

[ 本帖最后由 yytmywh 于 2006-3-15 21:21 编辑 ]

expire7UID: 2160574

写的比我好多了。suyue改了我就不插手了。

第一个分论点不错。保持社会团结必须要强权。

冬天的鹰UID: 2191930

语法方面有suyue修改了,我也不插手,不过我想对你的行文以及举的例子发表一下意见.

从你的提纲中看得出,很显然你采取的是一半同意,一半反对的观点,既适当的隐瞒是可以的,但是过度的隐瞒是不可取的.但是不知道是不是个人看法的问题,我读你的第一段,就是开头的这段的时候,给我的感觉....似乎你对于隐瞒信息持有的观点是一边倒的,有点狂热的感觉......

第一个论证段中你用的例子，就是秦始皇焚书坑儒这个，我觉得值得商榷。对于中国人而言，焚书坑儒的做法到底是利大于弊还是弊大于利，至今也是有争议的。虽然我也支持你的观点，但是在中国都还是有争议的事情，作为正面例子拿给一个不懂得中国历史的外国人来看，又没有更进一步的解释，这个这个....实在是觉得有点汗啊，再加上第一段中你给我的印象，如果完全抛开文化背景来看的话，怎么觉得，有点，有点....有点象纳粹的狂热啊（恩恩，千万别生气，绝对没这个意思，偶摸摸鼻子先）。

接下来的两个论证段，正如suyue所说，如果有一些例子来支持/丰满你的观点，哪怕不需要你详细解说这些例子，would be a bonus to your issue.