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What is willful ignorance?

What is willful ignorance? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (idiomatic, law) A decision in bad faith to avoid becoming informed about something so as to avoid having to make undesirable decisions that such information might prompt.
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One day, they will understand the callousness and bitterness and willful ignorance they currently represent.
Putting it kindly, that's willful ignorance.
Progress in this endeavor will demonstrate that informed, loving and peaceful approaches will lead to better outcomes than approaches driven by willful ignorance and brute force.
The pendulum has swung too far in the other direction from physician paternalism towards willful ignorance by patients.
Educators, social workers, and psychologists, reinforced by the media, have to find ways to replicate this example by communicating the poignant stories of suffering across the barriers of willful ignorance.
Of course, there's a difference between skillful intervention, mismanaged intervention, and willful ignorance of brute facts.

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