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Willful blindness,what is it and how it affects us.
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Wraithorn · 51-55, M
I'd like to watch this but my data is limited again. I did read up about willful blindness quickly though. Interesting...know what it brought to mind ? Certain leaders (often the religious fanatics) who claim innocence when their followers do extreme things. Even though they know very well that what they teach did cause the person to do what they did.
It also reminds me of certain situations in modern warfare where the country making war keeps the civilian death toll hidden by not allowing the mainstream media to report on it properly. This is done to keep the support for that war ongoing. If people knew that their tax money was used to kill so many innocent civilians then they might not be so keen on said war. If this is exposed, like it has been, then that government will claim that they didn't know. Willful blindness I think. If that kind of defense doesn't work in court for a person transporting drugs then it shouldn't work for a government either because a collective government, which is includes intelligence gathering organizations, is far more intelligent than your average drug mule.
What kind of examples were used in this video ?
It also reminds me of certain situations in modern warfare where the country making war keeps the civilian death toll hidden by not allowing the mainstream media to report on it properly. This is done to keep the support for that war ongoing. If people knew that their tax money was used to kill so many innocent civilians then they might not be so keen on said war. If this is exposed, like it has been, then that government will claim that they didn't know. Willful blindness I think. If that kind of defense doesn't work in court for a person transporting drugs then it shouldn't work for a government either because a collective government, which is includes intelligence gathering organizations, is far more intelligent than your average drug mule.
What kind of examples were used in this video ?
berangere · 80-89, F
People refusing to accept that they were dying of lung cancer because of the asbestos they had been using to built their homes and other facilities in a little town in America,even when someone tried to tell them, they just did not want to know nor accept it,even though the death rate was 80% higher in that town than in other towns.They even made placards saying "no we do not have asbestosis!"They eventually had to face the truth.The willful blindness of the American government who refused to recognise that their returned soldiers from the Iraq war were suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.(this I guess was because it would have cost the government too much money,OK to spend trillions in war but too costly to take care of their returned soldiers is my personal guess) and the willful blindness of the Catholic church,regarding the years of abuse of children under its care and by their parish priests.And not included in the video the willful blindness of people regarding Islam.
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Wraithorn · 51-55, M
@Peaches mmaybe...we'll see what happens eventually I suppose. I may have some willful blindness towards Russia because I don't see them or their government as bad people. In fact the Russians helped Black people in South Africa in quite a big way as far as overcoming oppression was concerned.
I don't know if Putin's intentions are good or bad. We'll see.....:-)
I don't know if Putin's intentions are good or bad. We'll see.....:-)