We all want to know exactly what's going but its better for us all if we don't know everything.--Botnst
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The problem with this concept is the question of who decides what's good for us to know? This is an open society. Before we send our children off to war, we ought to have a reasonable explanation for the cause. If you believe that the cause for war is among those things that we would be better off not knowing, then you have far more faith in politicians than I do.

If our government says, first, that there is a threat, that a mad dictator has weapons of mass destruction and intends to use them on us--but then recants after said weapons are nowhere to be found--the citizenry have a right to be ouraged.

The "we'd be better off not knowing" rationale has been around for eons, and has been used by politicians to screw the public time and again. Remember the government assurances, for example, that atomic testing in the west was of absolutely no danger for the citizens living there?

I think that in a democracy, the people must work constantly to unveil government secrecy. What we don't know can (and probably will) hurt us.