{"id":1527,"date":"2025-03-10T09:28:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-10T09:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/valid-reasons-to-prevent-disclosure-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-10T09:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T09:28:03","slug":"valid-reasons-to-prevent-disclosure-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/valid-reasons-to-prevent-disclosure-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Valid reasons to prevent disclosure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are there valid reasons to withhold disclosure? <\/p>\n<p>I think many of us on this subreddit share a desire for full transparency, even if the truth might be unsettling. However, I&#8217;m curious if there are any reasons you believe could justify keeping the phenomenon a secret from the public. For instance, imagine if the government had to keep this information under wraps because revealing it would inevitably lead to widespread panic or disrupt the precarious peace we currently enjoy. Would you still advocate for disclosure knowing the potential consequences?<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I feel that we deserve to know if we are being visited by extraterrestrial beings. Yet, if I were in a position of knowledge and discovered that the reason for secrecy was to prevent chaos caused by an impending threat\u2014like an alien mothership set to destroy Earth in 2030\u2014I&#8217;d have to think twice about demanding disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>I acknowledge this scenario may not be straightforward, but I\u2019m interested in hearing your philosophical perspectives on the possible reasons for withholding information, if any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nAre there valid reasons to withhold disclosure? I think many of us on this subreddit share a desire for full transparency, even if the truth might be unsettling. However, I&#8217;m curious if there are any reasons you believe could justify keeping the phenomenon a secret from the public. For instance, imagine if the government had&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/10\/valid-reasons-to-prevent-disclosure-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Valid reasons to prevent disclosure?&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}