Resolved: Private life of Pres. P-Noy should remain private.

I negate the resolution that The Presidents life should remain private because people has the right to know how he is like as a private citizen that would give people an insight of his character which might affect his public duty. And being a public figure he should be ready that he is actually giving right to probe his life. Where a person's character is an essential part of performing their public role, the public has the right to know any facts which reveal special aspects of their character, especially faults. This is because:

Private morality can tell us something about the person's character, and how it could affect their professional performance. If, in his private life, a public figure is found to have lied in a serious way, the public should be made aware that he could be lying in his work, too. Where public figures are responsible for setting a moral tone in society, any private immorality should be exposed as hypocrisy. For example, society should be aware that a leading campaigner against child abuse regularly beats his own children. The media should constantly examine the lives of public figures with responsibility for public funds and other assets. Politicians who have the power to influence the awarding of contracts should accept that their private friendships with business people should be open to public view. After all, it is taxpayers' money they could be giving away illegally. Politicians can promise voters that their friendships will never influence them in public office. As a journalist, you should monitor whether they keep that promise. If any misdeeds in private could be used to blackmail that person into compromising their public trust, the public has the right to know about it.

No clear dividing line can be drawn between public and private behaviour drawing up rules will be arbitrary and will exclude at least some corrupt or dishonest behaviour of bearing. Many politicians (and religious leaders) make an explicit or implicit campaign point out of their family values and other aspects of their "private" life, for example by being photographed with their loyal family, and through policy stands on such issues as divorce, single mothers, sex education, drugs, etc. If the public image such people seek to create is at variance with their own practice, such hypocrisy deserves to be exposed. You can report on the private life of public figures if

it tells something about their character which might affect their public duty they are responsible for public assets their private misdeeds could affect the public good

You have no right to intrude on a person's private life where there is no public benefit