Admiral Lord Nelson ended up with only one arm and one eye. At the battle of Copenhagen, which he thought he was about to win, his superior sent him a signal to retreat.

Nelson put the telescope to his blind eye and said he saw no signal.

Or so rumour has it.

Why don't we just call it "wilful ignorance"? Seems like a really roundabout way of saying something very simple.

Think: Conspiracy theory.

If our desire to avoid so-called ‘baseless pseudoscience’ is as casual as we imply; casual to such an extent so as to justify our complete disinterest in it as a species, then why is our knowledge of specifically what is forbidden-to-study, so damned accurate and thorough?

If it is all worthless fodder, then why are its opponents so well organized, trained and armed? This is Sherlock Holmes’ proverbial, ‘Dog that didn’t bark.’

https://theethicalskeptic.com/2019/03/07/nelsonian-inference-and-cultivated-ignorance/

This is why lefties will not talk about child trafficking. Will not investigate it, will not educate themselves on its pervailance. It's verbotten.

It eventually leads them to a plateau where there is a definite yes/no right/wrong clarity in moral perspective. (It's impossible to justify live organ harvesting as anything but what it truly is, so anyone who facilites or commits these crimes cannot be forgiven, so the moral high ground is lost in every regard of anyone who is on that side of the events.)

Crimes against children will unite everyone.