FwibbFwibb t1_j8itun7 wrote on February 14, 2023 at 5:03 PM

Reply to comment by TheManInTheShack in Study on former citizens of East Germany sheds light on why people may choose deliberate ignorance by chrisdh79

> so they are choosing to ignore what they know will contradict that.

No, if you had actually read what this is about, you would know that they don't want to find out who it was. They don't already know and have no way of knowing.

TheManInTheShack t1_j8jo6ri wrote on February 14, 2023 at 8:19 PM

I did read it. They know that it’s likely some people they currently trust would no longer be trustable if they looked into it. So they choose not to do so. That’s the entire point of the article.