If one were to know the truth of a significant matter, would transparency and honesty be owed to the community on said matter, even if it meant many in the community would feel harmed/ disenfranchised by it? — Benj96
What do you mean by "truth"? What exactly is your "integrity" or "honesty"? Or "autonomy" or "ignorance"? I ask because I think you might actually have meant facts for truth and some self-serving sense of propriety or correctness for integrity and honesty. And so forth. And knowledge as a sine qua non of autonomy? Whenever were there people who were not ignorant?If one were to know the truth of a significant matter, would transparency and honesty be owed to the community on said matter, even if it meant many in the community would feel harmed/ disenfranchised by it? Ie "a tough pill tonl swallow". Couldn't they declare that their autonomy in not knowing/ (their choice to remain ignorant) was taken away from them?
Can one truly have a choice in remaining ignorant as the very state is a state of not knowing what they ate avoiding?
In this case which is more important? The integrity of the truth or integrity of free will? — Benj96
This is an ethics question. The obligation to inform the community. Not all information fall into the category of culpability. So, the question should include 'what harm will it cause the community if they were not informed of this truth'.If one were to know the truth of a significant matter, would transparency and honesty be owed to the community on said matter, even if it meant many in the community would feel harmed/ disenfranchised by it? Ie "a tough pill tonl swallow". Couldn't they declare that their autonomy in not knowing/ (their choice to remain ignorant) was taken away from them? — Benj96
Neither. The ethics of information includes the deliberation of whether there is a need to disclose or not.In this case which is more important? The integrity of the truth or integrity of free will? — Benj96
If one were to know the truth of a significant matter, would transparency and honesty be owed to the community on said matter, even if it meant many in the community would feel harmed/ disenfranchised by it? Ie "a tough pill tonl swallow". Couldn't they declare that their autonomy in not knowing/ (their choice to remain ignorant) was taken away from them?
Can one truly have a choice in remaining ignorant as the very state is a state of not knowing what they ate avoiding?
In this case which is more important? The integrity of the truth or integrity of free will? — Benj96
If there was a collaborative effort to drop informational goods, flash drives and pamphlets over North Korea to inform North Koreans about how life is elsewhere as "truth owed", that effort might come with considerable state backlash (harm to its citizens). — Nils Loc
Really? If you were to tell the North Koreans about, say, the homeless in the US or the suicide rates in Switzerland, the government there would punish them?
What would be that "truth" you would tell them, and how complete would it be? — baker
If one were to know the truth of a significant matter, would transparency and honesty be owed to the community — Benj96
I think we can even extend this question, from knowing about these secrets to thought itself. Take the following dilemma: Imagine you were taking part in a lottery where several of your closest friends were each offered the choice of either immediately taking $1400 dollars or declining with the understanding that if all the other players declined then you would all receive $2000 each. What would you do? Now what would you do if it it were random people, each from a different continent of the world?Why shouldn't we meet and educate the isolated tribal peoples of the Sentinel Islands? Would educating them about what lies beyond their own way of life increase or erode their free will?
Liberated from what? Liberated into what? Into something like, Come, destroy your economy by outsourcing all the basic industry like production of food, clothing, shelter, and medicines to some piss poor third world country, and focus on producing an illusion of wealth and wellbeing, and no more than a mere illusion of it.If we were to believe that the North Korean peoples ought to be liberated — Nils Loc
The Western, and specifically, American, savior complex ...Am not saying that we should, but we are not being hard pressed to convey "truth" (truth bearing information) to North Koreans for the sake of potentially expanding or eroding their free will. The problem is the consequences of reorganizing a state, waging war, fomenting coups, changing social identity, are likely always worse than leaving it be.
A problem arises when, even presented with the truth, a certain part of the population will prefer comforting lies. — Questioner
Liberated from what? Liberated into what? — baker
The Western, and specifically, American, savior complex ... — baker
It's the idea that truth is somehow objective, neutral, and completely independent from the person who utters it that is problematic. — baker
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