There are questions that have no answer. If so, why do people try to find answers for them? One of these questions is if governments should deceive or hide information from the public. This is what Sissela Bok is trying to defend in her essay "Lies for the Public Good." Bok argues that government officials should not have the right to deceive or lie to the public no matter the issue. She argues that "nobles" since the beginnings of times have been lying and their reasons are usually for public's wellness. The problem is that politicians today still have the same trends as politicians thousands of years ago. Were politicians lie for people's wellness as for there owns. The reason for these deceitfully acts always been the same: abdication of power, misleading information on public behalf, and misleading of information on security reasons. In addition, this lying is making people skeptical about the role of government. Furthermore making people disillusioned with government and its reason for existing, but there are always exceptions. There are also many other types of people in the world. The kind that is too busy to be bothered with tedious information about the government. .
Sissela Bok has a tendency to argue about what is morally right due to her career as a moral philosophy professor. In addition, her parent's backgrounds two Novel prizes winner leaves us no doubt what kind of morals she learns. Bok has raised moral doubt about look like issues such as secrecy and lying. She argues until what point should secrets be keep. If secrets were to be trusted to someone, should that someone rupture this trusts infuse on him. She also arises doubt on lying and says that lying is what keeps secrets alive. Secrets are a need for human survival. However, lying is what is wrong and lies are not justified. The question is this: should a priest confess to the authorities when someone goes to him and confesses that he just killed a man.