40% of people willfully choose to be ignorant. Here’s why

[searcher]

Take this fwiw and dyodd.

40% of people willfully choose to be ignorant. Here’s why​

Do you have an uncle who believes vaccines cause autism but refuses to study the reams of research showing them to be safe? What about a friend who avoids information about factory animal farming so they can eat cheap meat guilt-free? Or how about that CEO who claims their business is ethically minded, yet doesn’t investigate its supply chain for exploitation of the environment or the impoverished?

Each is an example of what psychologists call willful ignorance — the intentional act of avoiding information that reveals the negative consequences of one’s actions. Not to judge: We all have a place in our lives where we look the other way and pretend everything is fine. It may be personal, political, or professional in nature, but just below the conscious surface, we know our actions don’t align with our stated values.

More: https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/people-choose-willful-ignorance/

 

[pmbug]

From 1742:

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
...
To each his suff'rings: all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan,
The tender for another's pain;
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate?
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies.
Thought would destroy their paradise.
No more; where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College by… | Poetry Foundation

Ye distant spires, ye antique tow'rs,

www.poetryfoundation.org

 

[Casey Jones]

Take this fwiw and dyodd.

40% of people willfully choose to be ignorant. Here’s why​

Do you have an uncle who believes vaccines cause autism but refuses to study the reams of research showing them to be safe? What about a friend who avoids information about factory animal farming so they can eat cheap meat guilt-free? Or how about that CEO who claims their business is ethically minded, yet doesn’t investigate its supply chain for exploitation of the environment or the impoverished?

Each is an example of what psychologists call willful ignorance — the intentional act of avoiding information that reveals the negative consequences of one’s actions. Not to judge: We all have a place in our lives where we look the other way and pretend everything is fine. It may be personal, political, or professional in nature, but just below the conscious surface, we know our actions don’t align with our stated values.

More: https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/people-choose-willful-ignorance/

And, why is it not their BUSINESS to choose what medical procedures they'll utilize - whether out of ignorance or for whatever reason? The Christian Scientists (who are neither) reject blood transfusions. IS that not their CHOICE? They have alternative procedures that will work with relatively-minor needs; and they allow use of their OWN blood, drawn beforehand, for elective procedures.

WHY is this SUCH a concern to the Elites? Unless, of course, the "good" reason is not the real reason.

The idea that anyone else is affected by a person's not choosing to get a vaccination, is a lie and complete idiocy. Your pet's rabies shot doesn't depend on whether every rat, bear and skunk has been rabies-vaccinated. The VACCINE...PREVENTS infection.

Unless, of course, the vaccine is completely ineffective. In which case, other pets/patients/persons taking the Jab won't MATTER...except to the Elites, who also choose to ignore the exploding death rates in younger people, without any curiosity over the cause.

Which is also curious. Unless you allow the hypothesis that that is the Elites' PLAN.

 

[JayDubya]

I don't know that its willful ignorance so much as it is people think they know something because the media told them it's so.
These people "believe" something because the talking heads said it, so it must be true.

 

[Casey Jones]

I don't know that its willful ignorance so much as it is people think they know something because the media told them it's so.
These people "believe" something because the talking heads said it, so it must be true.

Well, that's a variation of "willful ignorance." It's a CHOICE to not examine and explore someone else's assertion - whether it's a person in your face or a media propagandist.

Critical thinking is not, itself, an inborn ability - it's a learned skill, but everyone who's not on the short bus, can learn it. It's a choice, not to.

 

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[Voodoo]

I don't know that its willful ignorance so much as it is people think they know something because the media told them it's so.
These people "believe" something because the talking heads said it, so it must be true.

It's the definition of propaganda. And then they use their favorite gaslighting to denounce those stupid non-believers.

 

[Goldhedge]

Yep vaccines are safe... that's why SIDS dropped during Covid because kids weren't getting their normal shot schedule....

Now they jab babies with untold numbers of vaccines just 'in case'!

If I had a kid I'd be REALLY skeptical about the quantity of jabs they were 'supposed' to get.

If the big pharma lied to you about the jab what makes you think they aren't lying to you about the vaccines?