This seems to me analogous to keeping a good startup idea under wraps, but for the case of disutility.
However, violence in general and warfare in particular are more controlled subjects of expertise than anything commercial. It would be much more difficult to quietly gather information to check your suspicions, consult experts, etc. In many cases steps taken to verify whether you have a dangerous idea could be considered a crime.
Fortunately, people in general are powerfully unlikely to do anything to cause a lot of harm on purpose, so we lose very little by keeping this kind of thing to ourselves.
This seems to me analogous to keeping a good startup idea under wraps, but for the case of disutility.
However, violence in general and warfare in particular are more controlled subjects of expertise than anything commercial. It would be much more difficult to quietly gather information to check your suspicions, consult experts, etc. In many cases steps taken to verify whether you have a dangerous idea could be considered a crime.
Fortunately, people in general are powerfully unlikely to do anything to cause a lot of harm on purpose, so we lose very little by keeping this kind of thing to ourselves.