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Does truth matter?
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September 4th, 2013
The poet, Thomas Gray wrote,
”...where ignorance is bliss,
‘Tis folly to be wise.”
In his book, Circle of the Seasons, Edmund Way Teal countered that intuitive human desire to be blissfully ignorant, to believe anything so long as it makes me feel good about things, by writing:
“It is morally as bad not to
care whether a thing is true or not,
so long as it makes you feel
good, as it is not to care where you
got your money as long as you
have got it.”
Which seems more reasonable to you in tackling life’s questions? Does truth matter, or is ignorance bliss, as in, “Gee, I didn’t know it was illegal to rob the bank.”?
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