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On 4 December 2023, it was proposed that this article be moved from Willful blindness to Willful ignorance. The result of the discussion was moved.

Globalize[edit]

Pacerier (talk) 18:19, 3 March 2016 (UTC): ❝[reply]

Re:

Such defenses have not succeeded […]

Need a worldwide view on this statement.

Besides, even if we are talking about U.S. alone, it's not hard to imagine that such defenses are valid in certain situations, but not valid in others. The statement needs to be qualified with more context.

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Requested move 4 December 2023[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) NmWTfs85lXusaybq (talk) 15:10, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Willful blindness → Willful ignorance – For improved recognizability. The target already redirects here and has for 16 years, and the body of the article already uses the suggested title in four places, including a quote in a citation of a scholarly book on the subject that uses the suggested word in its title. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 19:04, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. More recognizable, and definitely a common term for the concept, and significantly clearer (i.e. it's not about being actually blind), etc. Paintspot Infez (talk) 02:07, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@BarrelProof Support per nom. Blindness is not ignorance and conflating the two is unnecessary, besides being potentially confusing and a less recognizable term. RookWeaver (talk) 05:15, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:44, 5 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Alleged synonym[edit]

The article says that "ignorance of law" is a synonym. Is that true? To me, that sounds more like ignorance of the law, which is a different topic. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 19:07, 4 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]