Win-Win Situation

With arguments there is often a winner and a loser or both are losers. Very rarely are there two winners. What I will attempt to do now is to create a win-win situation when dealing with private and public knowledge. There are often arguments over what should be private knowledge and what should be public knowledge. At what point should knowledge be kept to the individual, rather than be given to all of society? The best possible win-win situation that I can come up with is that only the information that is a necessity for the better functioning of society should be the knowledge that is public, all other knowledge that does nothing to better or worsen the society should be kept as private knowledge. Take the previous example of President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski. There was no gain to the society to know all of the details of President Clintons relationship with Monica, all that was needed to be known was that the relationship had indeed happened. Because the information was pushed and Clinton lied, impeachment was considered, whereas had the details of the relationship remained private impeachment never would have become an issue.