智慧人生篇章 第5期:隐私权与信息透明

The argument on how to get the balance rightbetween the right to privacy in private life and theimportance of having a free press working in thepublic interest to expose truth is still continuing.When I look for guidance in the New Testament, Icome across these striking words said byJesus,there's nothing covered up that will not beuncovered, nothing hidden that will not be madeknown. Therefore everything you've said in the darkwill be heard in broad daylight and what you'vewhispered behind closed doors will be shouting fromthe house tops. It looks therefore, as said, the New Testament is unequivocally on the side oftransparency. In private life, as the New Testament stresses, we shouldn't do anything we willbe ashamed to have revealed, and in public life, apart from exceptional circumstances,transparency must be the guiding principle.

人们依然为如何权衡保护隐私权和媒体为大众利益披露事实真相的重要性而争论不休。我在《新约圣经》中寻求答案，耶稣曾经说过这么一段振聋发聩的话。“若要人不知，除非己莫为，世上没有不透风的墙。所以，你背地里的一言一语总有一天会街知巷闻，你关起门来的悄悄话早晚会大白于天下。”由此可见，《新约圣经》明显的倾向于信息透明。就像圣经中强调的，在私生活方面，我们就不应该做任何羞于暴露出来的事情，而在公务方面，除了极个别的情况，一定要坚持信息透明的原则。