公共卫生官员几乎应该总是说实话

IF 0.7 2区 哲学 Q4 ETHICS Journal of Applied Philosophy Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.1111/japp.12659
Samuel Director
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新冠肺炎大流行的教训之一是,公众在很大程度上依赖公共卫生官员的知识。在疫情的每个阶段,公共卫生官员的证词对指导公共政策和个人行为至关重要。原因很简单:公共卫生官员对公共卫生的了解比你我多得多。作为外行,我们依赖专家。这似乎很简单。但新冠肺炎大流行表明,公共卫生官员似乎尚未决定他们的确切角色是什么;他们是在提供公众信息,还是以产生期望或最佳结果的方式向公众提供信息?在这篇文章中,我回答了以下问题:公共卫生官员在道德上有义务告诉公众什么?在我看来,这些是主要的选择:(1)无论结果如何,公共卫生官员都应该说出全部真相;或者(2)他们应该说出部分真相或谎言,以促进社会最佳结果。我对这个问题的回答是,公共卫生官员只能在非常狭窄和罕见的情况下撒谎。©2023应用哲学学会。
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Public Health Officials Should Almost Always Tell the Truth

One of the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic is that the lay public relies immensely on the knowledge of public health officials. At every phase of the pandemic, the testimony of public health officials has been crucial for guiding public policy and individual behavior. The reason is simple: public health officials know a lot more than you and I do about public health. As lay people, we rely on experts. This seems straightforward. But the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that public health officials seem undecided as to what, precisely, their role is; are they providing the public information as it presents itself, or are they informing the public in a way that produces a desired or optimal outcome? In this article, I answer the following question: what are public health officials morally obligated to tell the public? As I see it, these are the main options: (1) public health officials should tell the full truth, regardless of outcome; or (2) they should tell partial truths or lies that are aimed to promote a socially optimal outcome. My answer to this question is that public health officials are only allowed to lie under very narrow and rare conditions.

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