• ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      They literally can’t—malice requires knowledge, and ignorance is lack of knowledge.

      When committing a harmful act, either you know (malice) or don’t know (ignorance) that it’s harmful.

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        4 days ago

        Willful ignorance breaks that absolute, and handily.

        Choosing to remain or work toward a specific area/tier of ignorance for whatever myopic, hypocritical, bigoted, vile benefits that such intentional fuckery could offer you, personally… IS FUCKING MALICE.

        proof: the US, in essence, currently. ✊🏼

        damned furries can’t parse nuance in a paper bag

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          4 days ago

          Your emotional response, all caps expletives, and bigotry/prejudice toward a population of several hundred million people don’t even contradict what I wrote, let alone refute it.

          Malice requires willfulness, which requires knowledge, which ignorance is by definition a lack of, making malice and ignorance mutually exclusive, obviously.

          It’s as simple as that, your tantrum notwithstanding.

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            4 days ago

            Ohnoes! Not the expletives! My stars! 😱🖕🏽

            The “emotional” is re: the short list of reasons why people are opting into willful ignorance in the US, I presume? Aw, sweetie, if that’s “emotional”, you might wanna get off the internet, period. 🤪

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              2 days ago

              You do realize that doubling down with this infantile condescension only makes you look worse, right?

              It’s truly pitiful to see someone react this way to being wrong.