Willful blindness

system. Willful blindness is ignorance of injustice which is happening in our society. Willful blindness can be seen in our community and school very often. People ignore many harmful actions even though they know those actions hurt many people. Today willful blindness is very aspirating in U.S schools and administrators ignore: cheating in exams, bulling, and giving preferential treatment for athletes are manly seen as willful blindness. The first example I will consider is willful ignorance

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want to change. A definition that I learned in my critical thinking class in high school can explain this opinion. Willful blindness means “putting oneself in a position to be unaware of [the] facts [that] can create liability [upon a person] (USLegal).” Also, according to Margaret Heffernan in her book Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril. The term willful blindness has many synonyms such as “conscious avoidance” and “deliberate ignorance”; fear of change, and fear of conflict

selection of links on a new page on my website (they’re not spam, I promise) What really bugs you? Willful blindness a.k.a. the art of ignoring reality (and the now). “The legal principle of wilful blindness: you are responsible if you could have known, and should have known, something which instead you strove not to see.” – Margaret Heffernan, Wilful Blindness, 2012:1. I believe that willful blindness is the single

things being done and we decide to speak up while others decide to ignore what they see, because they decide not to see. But ignoring and not speaking up to what is going on can be very dangerous, and sometimes even fatal, in “The Dangers of Willful Blindness,” by Margaret Heffernan she proves this. She states that Gala “remembered when her mother had broken a leg and went into the hospital and she had a lot of x-rays, and two of them were leg x-rays, which made sense, but six of them were chest x-rays

Ms.Gardner admitted that she did carry cocaine in her suitcase on her flight from Jamaica to Montreal, but was “willfully blind”. Willful blindness is used “to describe a situation in which a person seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally keeping [herself] unaware of facts that would render [her] liable ("Willful blindness," n.d., para. 1). The accuse knew of the substance, but, in this case, was unaware of the quantity. The crown, with the evidences they

Butler uses traditional religion in the novel to demonstrate the ways in which it can be a destructive or constructive force in society. Butler demonstrates the dangers of dogmatic, authoritarian religion when it is used as an excuse to ignore the needs of others and the changes in society. Religion is not inherently a destructive force; it becomes a destructive force in Lauren’s community when it is used to control and limit thinking because of deference to church leaders such as Lauren’s father

Other people’s willful blindness shapes the invisibility of the narrator in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. The narrator describes these people with involuntary or willful blindness as “sleepers” to whom the narrator only exists as “a phantom” in their minds (Ellison 4). He exists only as an ambiguous figment of imagination that society refuses to regard outside of given parameters and stereotypes that one dimensionally define him. Most individuals fail to recognize the narrator’s existence like

There are several religious exemptions that followers can seem to justify but some cases seem to be outrageous and a threat to society. One of these exemptions being, religious vaccine exemption which seems to be a controversial topic even in today’s society. Although, there is not an abundance of religious followers who are against vaccination a few do seem to rise publicly once in a while which leads to a media frenzy. Religions such as, Christian Scientists and the Dutch Reformed Church are some

The American paparazzi have been described by celebrities and the news media as scum-of-the-Earth—mean, intrusive scavengers who feast upon other people’s misery (Saltzman par. 4). Imagine taking a walk with your friends in a secluded hiking trail. You are trying to enjoy the peace and serenity that the beautiful day brings; however, as fortune has it, you are a celebrity. Along with your fame come people gazing and staring at you, and fans asking for pictures or autographs. Ultimately, causing a