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Does ignorance deserve respect?

Arguments of harm reduction…  e.g. why intervene if ignorance is bliss?  Obligation to challenge ignorance due to the chance it will overtake rationalism if left unchecked.  Ignorance has the power to take us backwards into darker times…  Is religion and superstition a form of ignorance and if so, what is the rational response?

Not knowing the truth doesn’t make you ignorant.  Not wanting to know the truth is what makes you ignorant.