Poll

Which is worse?

Ignorance
13 (48.1%)
Apathy
10 (37%)
I don't know and I don't care.
3 (11.1%)
The more I know the less I care.
1 (3.7%)

Total Members Voted: 27

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Luigison

  • Old Person™
« on: October 26, 2008, 11:42:21 AM »
What's your take on this age old question? 
“Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive. But part of that involves hiding from us the stuff we don’t need to know."

Glorb

  • Banned
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2008, 01:41:04 PM »
Considering I'm a huge supporter of apathy, I'll say ignorance is worse.
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Luigison

  • Old Person™
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2008, 04:34:02 PM »
So far everyone has voted ignorance as being worse and I agree, but it'll be a little surprising if no one here subscribes to the "ignorance is bliss" concept.
“Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive. But part of that involves hiding from us the stuff we don’t need to know."

Chupperson Weird

  • Not interested.
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2008, 05:33:55 PM »
I can't respect the choice to remain ignorant. Even if you don't care, you still need to know.
That was a joke.

Turtlekid1

  • Tortuga
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2008, 05:40:23 PM »
Apathy is so much worse.  I was thinking of moral issues when I voted.
"It'll say life is sacred and so is death
but death is life and so we move on"

bobman37

« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2008, 06:29:22 PM »
I voted for I Don't Know And I Don't Care because of the sweet irony.

Luigison

  • Old Person™
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2008, 06:32:53 PM »
Quote from: bobman37 on October 26, 2008, 06:29:22 PM
I voted for I Don't Know And I Don't Care because of the sweet irony.
I don't know and I don't care.     - 0 (0%)
“Evolution has shaped us with perceptions that allow us to survive. But part of that involves hiding from us the stuff we don’t need to know."

TEM

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« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2008, 06:46:14 PM »
He REALLY doesn't care.
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Markio

  • Normal
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2008, 09:19:49 PM »
I voted that ignorance is worse.  Ignorance may be bliss, but not for everyone around the ignorant person.

Plus, if you're ignorant but not apathetic, that means you'd take action against things you don't fully understand.  Like lynching in the South--they killed people because of their race, but didn't understand that race is a socially constructed myth that forces people against their will into unfounded hierarchies of superior and inferior people regardless of one's true capacity to be a self-actualized human.

Suppose you're well-informed, but apathetic.  You won't to anything to better society, but you probably won't proactively go out and hurt people either.  I'm not saying it's not wrong to recognize injustice without taking action to stop it.  That's really bad too.  But less harm will be done.  Less of everything will be done.

I guess being apathetic is worse IF you recognize when you're ignorant and so take action to become less ignorant.  It's really best to be neither.  Or maybe both.
"Hello Kitty is cool, but I like Keroppi the best."

ShadowBrain

  • Ridiculously relevant
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2008, 09:39:47 PM »
"What's the difference between ignorance, apathy, and ambivalence?"
"I don't know and I don't care either way."

But really, apathy's worse. With ignorance, at least there's the possibility you have the drive to learn.
"Mario is your oyster." ~The Chef

Chupperson Weird

  • Not interested.
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2008, 10:22:53 PM »
I think we need some clear cut definition of what Luigison meant, although I think I knew what he meant already.
That was a joke.

Pt_Peach

« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2008, 01:05:06 AM »
I voted ignorance because being around ignorant people and hearing them speak can really drive you nuts.
"I don't know why they're called boyshorts! Boys don't wear shorts that short!" - Mitchie

Robert

« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2008, 04:29:22 AM »
I voted apathy. Knowledge is nothing without the drive to use it.
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Sqrt2

  • 1.41421356
« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2008, 09:44:09 AM »
Neither. they are both as bad as each other.
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A

« Reply #14 on: April 01, 2011, 08:30:02 PM »
How much ignorance? How much apathy? If one is so apathetic that one does not breathe, or if one is so ignorant that one does not know to breathe, one will die either way. Questions like this only reveal what the answerer sees more of in the world and in him or herself, not which fundamental concept is more dangerous at an abstract level.

For the record, I chose apathy. I could justify it by saying that an ignoramus cannot become unignorant if he is too apathetic to do so, but anyone could then bring up the hypothetical case of a man too ignorant to know that he is apathetic and therefore does not even know that he ought to care. So it's really just my personal preference.

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