@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
Fido wrote:
McTag wrote:
Insists on.
But that's a very weird sentence.
And false... Ignorance is the cause of fear... Ignorance is a dark world in which monsters are always at play... The dangers we know do not hurt us because we know enough to avoid them... The dangers we are not aware of will clean our collective clocks....The ignorant are only accidently courageous, but the knowledgable in facing danger know their chances and accept them, and though neither one, knowledgable nor ignorant can be said to be fearless, fear does not so dominate the lives of those who know....
Well explained, Fido.
Thank you.
"The ignorant are fearless" (in Chinese Pinyin, it refers to "Wu Zhi Zhe Wu Wei," -- "无知者无畏") is a saying very popular in China today. Why are the ignorant fearless? You know very well that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread," in which the angels are "timid" while fools "fearless." So the Chinese saying implies that the ignorant are fools.
The ignorant are thoughtless as thought/reasoning is what we do with knowledge, and thoughtless, unable to consider the situation, or the consequences is not courage which is the ability to relegate ones fears to their proper place and perspective in the scheme of things, and take care of business... In this sense the words of Socrates that knowledge is Virtue is correct, for when one knows good, one can do good, but to know good one must know all, good and not good, and be able to consider the consequences of any chain of events we put into motion... So; to know is usually to know, and to resist doing, which is to say: Rushing in... From my perspective it has often been obvious, that bad leaders are good followers who follow advice or public opinion, but good leaders dare to set limits, and tell what behavior is counterproductive to the ultimate goal... One cannot be a good leader without knowledge... Almost anyone with a will can be a bad leader...
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