{"id":8248,"date":"2015-08-18T07:45:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T11:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2015-08-09T16:59:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T20:59:04","slug":"ted-talk-the-dangers-of-willful-blindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2015\/08\/18\/ted-talk-the-dangers-of-willful-blindness\/","title":{"rendered":"TED Talk: The dangers of &#8220;willful blindness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; a term used in law to describe a situation in which a person seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally putting him or herself in a position where he or she will be unaware of facts that would render him or her liable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Willful_blindness\">Wikipedia<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Another Margaret Heffernan TED Talk based her book\u00c2\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Willful-Blindness-Ignore-Obvious-Peril\/dp\/0802777961\/\">Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril<\/a><\/em>. People sometimes avoid conflict by going out of their way not to know information that is ethically questionable. Whistleblowers are a unique breed of people who care so much about an institution they want to save\u00c2\u00a0it through their actions.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Margaret Heffernan: The dangers of willful blindness\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/margaret_heffernan_the_dangers_of_willful_blindness\" sandbox=\"allow-popups allow-scripts allow-same-origin\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe>\n<p>P.S. The other Heffernan TED Talk video I posted is\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"\/wplog\/2015\/08\/11\/ted-talk-dare-to-disagree\/\">Dare to disagree<\/a> posted last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; a term used in law to describe a situation in which a person seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally putting him or herself in a position where he or she will be unaware of facts that would render him or her liable. (Wikipedia) Another Margaret Heffernan TED [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[462],"tags":[3017,3057,1856],"class_list":["post-8248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","tag-conflict","tag-psychology","tag-ted-talk"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-292","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}