Reflecting on Ethical Situations

Reflecting on Ethical Situations
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Reflecting on Ethical Situations
Introduction
Citizens have a right to know. However, this right needs some limitation in particular aspects that involve the governments and security details. This paper presents a discussion of ethics related to people rights to know.
Citizens Right to Know Governmental Information
The extent to which citizens need to know relies upon the threshold of the news and the effects on the security. In some cases, governments need to harbor some information form citizens for the better good of the peoples’ well-being. The first reason as to why governments should hold some information is to improve security. In some cases, when information gets to the public domain, it might threaten the security. For example, a terrorist group might learn about the government’s next move towards closing in on the group making the terrorists change their tactics outsmarting the government leading to a more significant threat to the safety of citizens.
Release of Intelligence News During Wartime
Releasing intelligence information during war times endangers the counties. The intelligence identifies vast information and national data that helps the security forces within a country to bring to boom perpetrators of war. When such information leaks to the citizens, the rebels would have facts about every detail of what the government knows which would aid them to make counter arrangements on their next move making the war last longer or preventing efforts by governments to bring to book the criminals.

The intelligence should work independently and justly to determine the release and how to use information within its domain (Bellaby, 2012).
Leaking of Governmental Information
I wouldn’t vouch for the organizations of the kinds of WikiLeaks. People vote in a government with their preferred candidates taking the lead. I believe that people choose leaders who have the public’s best interest at heart. Whenever they prevent information from making it to the public, it will be for the better good of citizens and enhancing the security of the region. I wouldn’t want to witness a repeat of organization’s leaking information that the government has deemed confidential to the public.
Reference
Bellaby, R. (2012). What’s the Harm? The Ethics of Intelligence Collection. Intelligence & National Security, 27(1), 93-117.