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Not Quite The UF Philosophy Corner | by MatthewDBA | 2009-03-31 09:44:57 |
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All knowledge is not wisdom | by paladin | 2009-03-31 12:06:24 |
| Agreed. Wisdom is the ability to use knowledge |
by twixt |
2009-03-31 13:54:31 |
productively. The decision whether or not to inform the child requires wisdom.
The problem is deciding whether or not the reason you deny the knowledge to the child should be generalized into a reason to deny knowledge of the information about explosives in general to the vast majority of society.
I just finished reading a book called "The Secret Teachings of All Ages" by Manly P. Hall. This thing is a treasure trove of arcana, but most importantly, it contains multiple examples of the thinking that justified the "Secret Societies" of past ages.
With the knowledge we have today, it seems painfully obvious to me that the entire dark-ages could have been easily avoided if this paranoid tendency to keep knowledge out of the hands of the masses had not been so pervasive back then.
It also seems obvious to me, from the examination of the historical record, that our greatest technological progress has occurred when there has been wide dissemination of knowlege and permission for wide diversity of opinion.
On the basis of a reality-based performance review, the results indicate that the risk of putting knowledge into the hands of evildoers is more than compensated for by the number of good-guy whistleblowers willing to call the evildoers on their stuff.
IMO, we humans aren't willing to give the "good guys" enough credit for their results - because we are genetically-programmed to pay more attention to the "bad guys" and their results. (More consequences of survival-programming.)
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