Definitions for willful blindness
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1. Willful blindness

   Willful blindness is 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 keeping themselves unaware of facts that would render them liable or implicated. In United States v. Jewell, the court held that proof of willful ignorance satisfied the requirement of knowledge as to criminal possession and importation of drugs.: 225 Although the term was originally—and still is—used in legal contexts, the phrase "willful ignorance" has come to mean any situation in which people intentionally turn their attention away from an ethical problem that is believed to be important by those using the phrase (for instance, because the problem is too disturbing for people to want it dominating their thoughts, or from the knowledge that solving the problem would require extensive effort).

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1. Willful blindness

   Willful blindness is a term used in law to describe a situation in which an individual seeks to avoid civil or criminal liability for a wrongful act by intentionally putting his or herself in a position where he or she will be unaware of facts that would render him or her liable. For example, in a number of cases, persons transporting packages containing illegal drugs have asserted that they never asked what the contents of the packages were and so lacked the requisite intent to break the law. Such defenses have not succeeded, as courts have been quick to determine that the defendant should have known what was in the package and exercised criminal recklessness by failing to find out. A famous example of such a defense being denied occurred in In re Aimster Copyright Litigation, 334 F.3d 643, in which the defendants argued that the file-swapping technology was designed in such a way that they had no way of monitoring the content of swapped files. They suggested that their inability to monitor the activities of users meant that they could not be contributing to copyright infringement by the users.

How to pronounce willful blindness?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Oliver

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How to say willful blindness in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of willful blindness in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of willful blindness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of willful blindness in a Sentence

1. Marc Edwards:

   I can't help but comment on the qualities that seem to be valued in administrators at the EPA: willful blindness, in this case to the pain and suffering of Flint residents; unremorseful for their role in causing this man-made disaster; and completely unrepentant.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willful_Blindness
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=willful blindness