do you do? Your decision to help or walk away from the patron in need‚ and encourage or discourage our child from engaging in play with the other child will define your ignorance or compassion in handling these situations. Do you wish to teach your child to exude ignorance or do you wish your child to convey compassion? Ignorance is the lack of knowledge or information on a given subject. Compassion is the understanding of someone’s pain and the ability
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The Ignorance Towards Autism The average person tends to stare‚ or look away from a person with a disability. The average person is ignorant about the condition that every 1 in 88 people are diagnosed with‚ which is autism. The average person considers autism to be a disease that a person may “suffer” from‚ and tend to label these people as “unfixable.” Like the well known character Lennie‚ from the novel Of Mice and Men‚ written by John Steinbeck‚ people cannot seem to understand the reason Lennie
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Ignorance is bliss is something we humans use a lot‚ even if we don’t recognize it. For example‚ if someone’s son crashed their parent’s car‚ would the parent be happier if they had known or didn’t know about it. The parent if they had known would be angry about what had happen to the car and what their son had done‚ but if they didn’t know then they wouldn’t be angry. Sounds very simple correct? Then why do fat people avoid weighing themselves on a scale. Well now it’s not as simple as we think
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hence the phrase “ignorance is bliss”. The classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird‚ written by Harper Lee‚ takes place in the town of Maycomb‚ a fictional small town in the American south‚ during the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement. Reading came easy for Scout Finch‚ especially with her father’s help (he is an educated lawyer)‚ but her 1st grade teacher‚ Miss Caroline Fisher‚ does not
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Socrates said‚ “There is only one good‚ knowledge‚ and one evil‚ ignorance.” Ignorance is the lack of knowledge. A person who is ignorant does not even know they are uninformed or unaware. Ignorance is evil because it is rooted in assumption. Assumptions are always theoretical and can be disproven. Many times during the day people need to make assumptions or guesses. For example‚ a father who has raised his children assumes he will be taken care of by those same children as he ages. His children
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Political ignorance only poses a problem if the politically informed continually dismiss the politically ignorant as‚ figuratively speaking‚ an embargo to freedom- an entity that must be dispelled and whose words must be muted or whose products must go unconsumed. Political ignorance only poses a problem if the politically informed settle on submission‚ on subservience‚ and throw the politically ignorant into the pit when it comes time for a sacrifice to be requested by perpetrators of tyranny‚
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Stupidity vs. Ignorance “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity‚” explained Martin Luther King‚ Jr. Even forty-five year after his death‚ Dr. King still continues to preach a very bold message to the world. Although stupidity and ignorance may seem very similar‚ they are very different. Ignorance is the unwillingness to evolve whereas stupidity is the inability to evolve. Today technology is a key aspect in everyday living. It is a necessity
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If a person is born ignorant‚ to guardians who were born ignorant and raised under misleading information‚ in a society that encourages ignorance‚ and inevitably dies under the influence of ignorance. They died a normal person‚ because ignorance was their social construct of living. The indoctrination into this matrix can be called education; brainwashing‚ can be called entertainment. The criminals and lawbreakers so condemned by this society‚ can actually be found in its leaders. The lies these
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Rawls’ View of Ignorance Rawls theory of justice revolves around the adaptation of two fundamental principles of justice which would‚ in turn‚ guarantee a just and morally acceptable society. The first principle guarantees the right of each person to have the most extensive basic liberty compatible with the liberty of others. The second principle states that social and economic positions are to be a) to everyone’s advantage and b) open to all. A key problem to Rawls is to show how such principles
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race‚ religion‚ sexual orientation and gender seemingly smaller issues such as weight or height. Despite efforts at eliminating overt forms of discrimination through the years‚ it remains persuasive in society largely because of ignorance. Willful and/or unintentional ignorance is more often than not‚ the fundamental reason for discrimination and is the river from which all other reasons- such as tradition –flow. Religion has been a hot topic in the last decade since the events of September 11‚ and
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