Willful Blindness
"Willful Blindness* is a term used in law to describe a situation in which a person seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally keeping themselves unaware of facts that would render them liable or implicated."
*sometimes called willful ignorance, contrived ignorance, conscious avoidance,
intentional ignorance or Nelsonian knowledge
'The Dangers of Willful Blindness'
Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril
"Willful blindness is a legal concept which means, if there's information that you could know and you should know, but you somehow manage not to know, the law deems that you're willfuly blind. You have chosen not to know."
Dr. Margaret Heffernan's Ted Talk, Budapest, Hungary | 22 April 2013 | 5 min, 59 secs
Willful Blindness
Why We Ignore the Obvious
Heffernan's book, first published in 2011, argues that the biggest threats and dangers we face are the ones we don't see – not because they're secret or invisible, but because we’re willfully blind.
She asks: "What makes us prefer ignorance? What are we so afraid of? Why do some people see more than others? And how can we change?"
The fully revised, 2019 edition includes further appalling instances of willful blindness:
- London's Grenfell Tower Fire,
- Carillion, the Enron of Britain,
- Harvey Weinstein's Sexual Abuse Scandal,
and many more.
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