If the whereabouts of Jamie Bulger's murderers were made known, someone would commit a crime or a series of crimes against them.
The police would then have to investigate these crimes, which, if their names had never been revealed, would never have happened.
Would you individually be happy to cough up for police time to investigate the crimes, plus the cost of court time?
Would you then compensate the dependents of whoever went to jail because they'd either been convicted of GBH, ABH or murder?
That's what we're talking about surely? There are associated costs to this that few people seem to think of.
We're not being wishy-washy do-gooders - just practical. By revealing their names, you're encouraging a form of anarchy. You just can't give people the instruments to take the law into their own hands.
(Incidentally, isn't it weird that 'do-gooder' has now become a term of abuse?)