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Your example relies on the idea that government negotiators will be more benevolent and peaceful - will work more towards the common good - in secret than in pu
by jhpriestley 16y ago
Your example relies on the idea that government negotiators will be more benevolent and peaceful - will work more towards the common good - in secret than in public.
Maybe that happens once in a while. The far, far, far more common case is that secret negotiations amount to a conspiracy by the powerful against the weak.
- JabavuAdams 16y agoObviously, there are many bad things about secrecy, but: 1) Are you arguing that there should never be secret negotiations? 2) If (1), what system do you propose that would allow negotiators to break deadlocks in the pre-conditions for negotiation? For example of (2): A opening position: we won't recognize you unless you first give us what we want. B opening position: we can't give you what you want until you recognize us. Secretly, both A, B, their constituencies, et. al. would accept solution X, but they can't even start to get to X.