H:Aways dispose of the difficute bit in the title. Dose less harm there than in the text.

A:The less you intend about to do something,the more you have to keep talking about it.

B:What's wrong with open goverment? Why shoudn't the public know more what's going on?

A:Are you serious?

B:Well . Yes. I mean it's the minster's policy,afterrall.

A:It's a contradiction in thems.you can be open or you can have goverment.

B:But surely the citizens of a democracy have a right to know.

H:No . They have a right to be ignorant.