Ignorance: Sometimes A Choice In the Age of Information

In response to Skyla - full post here

It's quite a shame really when people try to 'advocate' for things they do not really know about. In general, I do not think that ignorance is a choice, and therefore, I do not think that it is punishable (in the loosest sense of the word). However, I think that there is a kind of ignorance that characterizes many people in our contemporary society. I suppose we could call it intentional ignorance.

In the age of information, knowledge, in "first-world" at least, is available on the internet at many peoples' fingertips throughout various points of the day. If a person is going to support a cause, they should, using the internet, learn as much as they can about whatever they are supporting.

Many people, for instance, use the acronym LGBT but don't know for what the T stands, yet they do not look it up. Many people also say that they support the T of LGBT, but they still don't know what it stands for. Even people who do know for what it stands sometimes do not know what it is, or how to actually support them without causing harm or spreading misinformation.

Again, in an age of technology, sometimes ignorance is a choice.