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Huh? What did I say? Did I screw up again? :(
I'm wondering if the idea that willful ignorance to prevent hypothetical fears from becoming reality is nothing more than a cowardly reaction to not being able to responsibly handle knowledge. I was hoping to hear some thoughts from others on this.
I was watching a program where I heard an except from a book written by Richard Feynman regarding his part in the creation of the atom bomb. He uses an analogy about how every man is given keys to the gates of heaven but how those same keys can also open the gates of hell. Here, I understood the keys are knowledge and heaven and hell represent positive and negative application of said knowledge.
It's really common to point to Nazi experimentation to point to, not only the negative application of knowledge, but to also to how knowledge acquired through negative means also weigh on ethnicity of use of the knowledge. This got me to wondering if there is knowledge that's forever trapped in nescience simply because the hypothetical means of acquiring it and the potential application of it are simply too negative? In such a situation, trying to extend the keys analogy, wouldn't there also be a positive means and a positive application for such knowledge?
I was watching a program where I heard an except from a book written by Richard Feynman regarding his part in the creation of the atom bomb. He uses an analogy about how every man is given keys to the gates of heaven but how those same keys can also open the gates of hell. Here, I understood the keys are knowledge and heaven and hell represent positive and negative application of said knowledge.
It's really common to point to Nazi experimentation to point to, not only the negative application of knowledge, but to also to how knowledge acquired through negative means also weigh on ethnicity of use of the knowledge. This got me to wondering if there is knowledge that's forever trapped in nescience simply because the hypothetical means of acquiring it and the potential application of it are simply too negative? In such a situation, trying to extend the keys analogy, wouldn't there also be a positive means and a positive application for such knowledge?