2010-12-10, 11:45 AM
DualReaver Wrote:[COLOR="green"]About the book burning comment made a little while back, of course I'd stand up and fight it. But that's a different form of knowledge. Yes, people need to be able to have access to information, and there should be no reason for them to not be when it is availible. But this information is stuff that very few people know, and is related to things that uphold the integrity of a country.
Sure, everyone, including myself, wants to know if the government is abusing it's power to commit crimes or horrible actions. Everyone in the world wants that. Are any of those governments going to tell you? Probably not, unless stuff like this happens. Everyone is going to have secrets, and not everyone is going to be an upstanding individual, especially people in the government. People lie all the time, with the severity being different, but there's nothing preventing people from it, so humans will always lie.
Other countries have done horrible stuff too, but simply because the things about the US have been revealed, everyone is rallying for him and attacking us. Because right now, the world's secrecy is in imbalance. A bunch of US secrets have been revealed, but nobody else is standing up to reveal information about themselves. That lets the entire world paint us as a scapegoat, as a group of horrible people, simply because our government did some bad things, like everyone else. Not to mention, countries are finding their feelings hurt due to lies other countries have made about them.
Imagine you're in a classroom, and someone walks into class and tells everyone there who you've masturbated to, or that you lied to your ex girlfriend about loving her just to get her in bed, or some other personal secret. You're going to be laughed at and ridiculed, as well as experience some backlash, but nobody else is going to stand up to offer information about themselves, leaving you in poor isolation, clutching to try and explain yourself for things you've done wrong in the past that you couldn't change.[/COLOR]
If you lie to a women to have sex with her, i think she deserves to know and frankly i don't care if someone knows who i jerk it to considering I'm not a pedo or anything (and if i was IMO i think I should be reported).
As well you're 100% right people generally won't reveal secrets on their own ESPECIALLY when it can damage their integrity and ya know what a lot of secrets worth knowing such as reasons for war will damage integrity. I'd be thankful people like Assange are willing to reveal them.