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When full disclosure of the truth means that people will panic and cause bigger harms, you have to take the good of society into consideration. "Ducking and co
by Arainach 11mo ago
When full disclosure of the truth means that people will panic and cause bigger harms, you have to take the good of society into consideration.
"Ducking and covering" isn't going to do anything in a nuclear strike, but if telling people that it will do something means they stay calm and don't go into a panic stockpiling guns and food (or abandoning all civilized principles altogether in a nihilistic fit), then telling them that is justified.
- CWuestefeld 11mo agoWhen full disclosure of the truth means that people will panic and cause bigger harms, you have to take the good of society into consideration. OK, so at least we're being honest now and not pretending it's a democracy anymore. But who is it that decides when it's something of sufficient severity that we must lie?