k 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. The priest moral obligation is to pardon his confessor sins and not tell anyone, that is what the word of the lord says. His legal obligation is inform the authorities about the crime he knows about. What is he to do? Should he follow what people believes is right or should he follow his life teachings, to forgive and forget? According to Bok, the priest keeps the secrets that need no justification, but he is lying and thus creates every form of abuse. He should tell. Bok raises the issue of government secrecy and lying in her essay “Lies for the Public Good.” She examines the ways “noble Lies” told by “noble” people abuses ordinary people.

Five decades ago life was simple. One could live off a mediocre job with little income; have no college experience and even have no high school diploma. However, today’s world has changed so drastically that it is more likely to have less quality time and more work time. This has created problems for the people and the government. People today are overloaded with work and information and we do not seem to care about exterior forces. The reason people wake up in the morning is for their own benefit, and not for the benefits of others. This is a reason why we stop paying attention to government. People only want to see the big picture of government; people tend not to care if something so insignificant happens and the government has to lie about it. Why bother and complain about such little details that by the next morning it will be forgotten. The detailed agenda that Bok wants the government to report to the people will only interfere with our peace and tranquility. What is intolerable for politicians is the fact that they lie on predominant issues that affect the entire nation. This is never ok for politicians to do.

People have a tendency to think that people in government are individuals who know what they are doing, and if they are there, it is for a reason. This belief was implemented thousands of years ago, when people were innocent enough to believe in divine right. An idea that God himself choose the people in power, also politicians believed to be superior beings. Thus being ok for nobles to deceive and lie, because as chosen they are who “know when to tell the truth and when no to.” (Bok 245) Human evolution has modified this absurd idea. It seems that people have revolutionized into thinking of politicians as normal citizens. That can come and go depending on how well they do their job. Politicians on the other hand still believe themselves men, which have the right to lie. Reason why politicians today believe themselves to having this right is that they still see people as individuals that are not going to understand particular situation of their work. Thus being easier for them to lie and deceit then to explain something that for them does not needs an explanation. This is what Bok is trying to argue about today’s politicians. That they act with out telling people what they are going to do. Taking citizens for granted on issues that can be of great importance to them.

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