Is ignorance so bad?

[Zion]

Ignorance is bliss.

[John Paul]

Only until what your ignoring starts to effect your life negatively

[Willie]

It’s a matter of perspective, and changes depending on the context. Ignorance can be blissful, and ignorance can be severely damaging.

[Carl-Richard]

If you don't want to keep running into the same walls over and over again – yes.

[Mason Riggle]

"Ignorance is bliss, but only for the ignorant. For the rest of us it's a right pain in the arse." - Ricky Gervais

[Tim R]

Every coin has two sides

[Scholar]

Ignorance is suffering. Suffering for everyone who you turn a blind eye to. If you ignore the suffering of the animals in the factory farms, nature will make it so causing this suffering will be your downfall. The german people choose to ignore what was happening right before their eyes, and nature deemed it rightful that the german people ought to be destroyed. This is what happens when you are ignorant.

 

Yesterday a tornado destroyed several villages in the czech republic:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57605651

 

You might think "Oh what a tragedy!". But this is not actually true. What is tragic is that all of those individuals who now suffer, choose to ignore the suffering of others, the suffering of nature and all it's inhabitants. They were convinced that they could live their lifes blindly, to only focus on themselves and that everything would be okay as long as they take care of themselves.

 

Nature will cause a lot more suffering to humanity, because humanity chooses to be ignorant and complacent. Only through suffering will we understand how important universal concern is. If you choose to ignore the suffering of your neighbours children, do not be surprised when your own child gets killed in a school shooting. That is the direct consequence of your ignorance and complacency.

If you watch by as trillions of beings are enslaved, tortured and killed, what do you think the consequence is going to be? Why would nature have mercy with you, if you cannot show any mercy to your brothers and sisters?

 

 

People live in such comfort today that they need to be reminded what it means to truly suffer.

[RobertZ]

Sometimes knowledge can cause intellectual suffering. Moments of learning that caused me to feel the pain of my ignorance made me really feel this sentiment, “ignorance is bliss.” I wished I had never learned any of [this]. If I hadn’t learned [this], I might feel lost and confused at some points in my life—but I would avoid the intense intellectual pain of more acute identification with my thoughts. another aspect of knowledge is simplicity of life. Panic might motivate me to a greater or lesser degree, even if I learn more.

Edited June 27, 2021 by RobertZ