Some people believe it is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public. Others believe that the public has a right to be fully informed.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Political leaders are strong figures whom we chose as the ones to lead us as a nation and to bring about a better civilization for everyone. Paralelly, a leader aims at holding in line, which means securing the current position of a country and hustling for a better one. Furthermore, the leader owes clarity to not only his or her constituents but also every citizen of that particular country, which means, a citizen of a country has the right to be informed about the deeds of the government and what is going on in the country they are living in. At this point, the goal of the leader and the rights of the people might clash. For example, in case of an emergency, in particular, in case of a terror attack or a missile towards a terrorist organization, the leader might keep the information as secret, for the benefit of the whole society. If the leader shares this particular information with the common people than the assault would be doomed to fail. If he does not share the situation with them, then he would be abolishing their right to be informed. However, with respect to the Double Effect Principle, which claims that in case of a clash like this, the person should compare and contrast pros and cons and chose the more rational one; the leader would probably chose to keep the information secret. So while I agree with the people who claim that it might sometimes be necessary and even desirable to withold information from public, I strongly suggest that this is only valid in case of emergencies and threats again the tranquility of a nation.
For example, the United States spent many years trying to capture Usame bin Laden, who is responsible of the death of thousands of people not only in America, but also all over the world. The day the US military succeeded to kill him, Obama shared the news with the people, which caused great astonishment among the military officials. After years, an official told the press that, they were actually going to keep the fact that bin Laden was dead, because the operation was still going on. This is a controversy, however, I think that Obama did the right thing. Because the further operation was not against people who caused great casualties and the death of bin Laden was the desire of millions of people. I am sure that the news brought peace to many homes all around the world. However, if the rest of the operation was still targeting people as noxious as bin Laden, then Obama would have caused a great danger.
Furthermore, the issue of withholding information from the society might go too extreme, as we see in case of North Korea. The people of North Korea are so deprived of any kind of information about the deeds of the state. Many of them do not even know how prosperous is the life of their leader. Their right to be informed is definitely not respected and this is quite different from keeping the secret information of an attack to terrorists.
When Journalist Can Dundar was got arrested in Turkey, everyone was shocked. He was imprisoned because he published the photographs in which the Turkish government was clearly sending bombs and weapons to Syria. The government accused Mr. Dundar with treason and he received life sentence. This is again a very dilemma. Did Mr. Dundar do the right thing with sharing these photographs? I think the Turkish people have the right to know what their taxes are spent for: Weapons to be used in Syria, and who knows against whom they were being used. Innocent people? Terrorists?
As a result, the only thing I thoroughly agree with is the troublesome nature of the claim of the author. Even though the people of a nation have the right to know what their money through taxes are spent upon or what their army is currently up for, there is little nuance between when to share and when to keep as secret. I think that governments should be crystal clear about their legacies especially about human rights and international relations -such as in the incident with Can Dundar-. They should inform their people about the new laws with which the ordinary people are going to be judged. However, keeping the information as a secret is acceptable, if there is a threat for the nation or a possible failure of an attack towards terrorists in case of a deciphering.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 846, Rule ID: SENTENCE_FRAGMENT[1]
Message: “If” at the beginning of a sentence requires a 2nd clause. Maybe a comma, question or exclamation mark is missing, or the sentence is incomplete and should be joined with the following sentence.
..., for the benefit of the whole society. If the leader shares this particular infor...
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Line 2, column 1276, Rule ID: DID_BASEFORM[1]
Message: The verb 'would' requires the base form of the verb: 'choose'
Suggestion: choose
...rational one; the leader would probably chose to keep the information secret. So whil...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, furthermore, however, if, so, still, then, while, for example, i think, in particular, kind of, such as, as a result, with respect to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 40.0 19.5258426966 205% => Less to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 22.0 14.8657303371 148% => OK
Relative clauses : 24.0 11.3162921348 212% => Less relative clauses wanted (maybe 'which' is over used).
Pronoun: 51.0 33.0505617978 154% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 104.0 58.6224719101 177% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3538.0 2235.4752809 158% => OK
No of words: 753.0 442.535393258 170% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.69853917663 5.05705443957 93% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.23840104116 4.55969084622 115% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.53665964033 2.79657885939 91% => OK
Unique words: 327.0 215.323595506 152% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.434262948207 0.4932671777 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1093.5 704.065955056 155% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 14.0 4.99550561798 280% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 11.0 3.10617977528 354% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 31.0 20.2370786517 153% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.9370191076 60.3974514979 103% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.129032258 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.2903225806 23.4991977007 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.96774193548 5.21951772744 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 13.0 5.13820224719 253% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.206151578895 0.243740707755 85% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0551520199885 0.0831039109588 66% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.038884787444 0.0758088955206 51% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.117654863633 0.150359130593 78% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0581794549287 0.0667264976115 87% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.9 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 55.58 48.8420337079 114% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.28 12.1639044944 85% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.95 8.38706741573 95% => OK
difficult_words: 149.0 100.480337079 148% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 18.0 11.8971910112 151% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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