The Nature of Information in a Free and Just Society

The examination of the concepts of role and duty is key to the question of government and the nature of information in a free and just society. Information truly has power in the choices related to distribution and its ability to create trust to effect deliberate change. The possibility of knowledge and certainty inherent in the transmittal of text reaffirms the importance of information over tradition while illustrating the dualities of duty and the implications of role in public life. 

The purpose of political life is happiness and government is not only an explanation of our human behavior but also a prescription for how institutions must deal with the consequences of that behavior. The making of government is a fundamental human definition only a hair removed from ethical life and one's role within society is in a circular relationship with ethics and morals. The roles of a politician and of a journalist in a just society are important components in the consideration of the ethics of information dispersal. Some view politicians as representatives of political will, social leaders, debaters or simply elected policymakers while some view journalists as investigators, opinion-makers, objective informers or only filters of information to the public. Everyone that lives a public life tampers with a fragile society that is highly subject to alteration on the basis of his or her actions. The question is: how far can an individual within a role go in accepting him or herself as defined only by a group experience?