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Fortinbras Armstrong

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4. I was thinking of something called willful ignorance.

Reply to Person 2713 (Reply #3)

Thu Jan 28, 2016, 12:54 PM

Jan 2016

It is well established, both in law and in ethics, that if you deliberately keep yourself ignorant of wrongdoing, you are as culpable as if you had full knowledge.

If you want the legal argument, Rebecca Roiphe's "The Ethics of Willful Ignorance" is good. If you want the moral argument, see Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica I-II, Question 6, articles 3 and 8

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I think there will be more... Bjornsdotter Jan 2016 #1

She will undoubtedly claim ignorance Fortinbras Armstrong Jan 2016 #2

I think they have more then her just turning a blind eye to his actions and benefitting Person 2713 Jan 2016 #3

I was thinking of something called willful ignorance. Fortinbras Armstrong Jan 2016 #4