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by Disruptive_Dave 640 days ago
> Reading the rest of the thread, you HN'ers are very blessed to be ignorant that such a program exists.

By this logic pretty much every single person in existence is "blessed to be ignorant" of the thousands (more?) of potential ailments they aren't facing right now. Seems like a silly POV.
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icepat 640 days ago
Yes? I don't see a problem with this line of reasoning.
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majewsky 639 days ago
"Ignorant" implies that they are actively avoiding this information. A less inflammatory choice of words would be "unaware".

For instance, it is extremely silly to consider non-Americans "ignorant" if they don't know US-only programs.

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icepat 639 days ago
No, it does not imply that. Ignorant simply means "lacking knowledge". You're implying the separate term "willfully ignorant" means the same thing as ignorant. If it did, then willfully ignorant would be redundant, which it is not.
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