Knowledge well dilemma

[AnonUnlimited]

Very interesting. You are correct. But it is worthy of note that the nazis were good people that were corrupt by bad knowledge which they thought was true. Essentially platos cave. Slightly defeats my dilemma. Now, if I were to be a far right extremist with trivial knowledge which preaches their message, eventually some good people might agree and adopt my ideas, causing havoc.

Experience often trumps knowledge. That is true, I will keep it in mind. After all, is knowledge is only valuable when it is being tested and used, which in turn creates much firmer, dependable knowledge.

The problem with the argument you're making about "good" is that as a society we don't agree on an objective definition of what "good" is. Instead we have a lot of institutions and people of influence trying to define "good" for us.

As for the sake of argument let's assume the majority of people in Germany during WW2 were "good." There was constant censorship for the people of Germany when it came to "concentration camps" and documented evidence that stated that they were "educative institutions for criminals" rather than places Jews were dumped off to suffer and die.

In this case your statement that "bad knowledge corrupts and causes havoc" only holds true to the extent that the people of Germany did not act to save the Jews, but the only reason they didn't act was because they didn't know. Majority of Germans who were not soldiers also genuinely believed due to the lies that Germany was fighting for it's freedom rather than being the invading army... however the only reason the lies were pushed forward was because of censorship.

All these scenarios meant that Hitler didn't believe the German people would unequivocally support genocide, even with all the propaganda he fed them. So if the German's were Good, the reason they didn't act on their "goodness" was due to censorship. I would imagine that if the Nazi's didn't censor so much then most people who were reasonable would have been against the Nazi regime.

Edit: I guess what I'm getting at is that it's more dangerous to give narrative power to one party over letting everyone speak regardless of whether or not it's propaganda. If something is really false then the majority of people wouldn't believe it when presented with the facts. If society is full of people who have to be "controlled and brought away from those dangerous thoughts" then the problem is probably emotional instability or that the majority of people are already inherently evil.

 

[BackWoodsJ_ACK]

In most cases, you need not only knowledge but experience. I took a human development course a decade ago, but I didn't start using that knowledge until recently. Now that I see the real-world impacts of my knowledge, I'm much more vocal about certain things. This is one of them:

How Cosleeping Can Help You and Your Baby

The decision whether to cosleep with your baby is extremely controversial—and there are two sides to the story.

greatergood.berkeley.edu

We got a free crib from a friend of a relative, so we tried to put our baby in there at first. However, he absolutely refused to sleep there. "Just let him cry it out, and he'll be asleep in ten minutes," one person told us. No, my son has a very big, strong pair of lungs. He can cry for an hour straight. "Wait until they fall asleep and then put him in the crib," another person told us. No, my son was very sensitive to being moved. I became so sleep-deprived that my biggest fear became accidentally dropping my son while moving him from place to place. Some sleep-deprived parents might wind up falling asleep with their babies in an unsafe position. Now THAT is dangerous. To catch up on our sleep, my husband and I took turns watching each other cosleep with our son until we gained confidence that we could do it safely.

I'm convinced that hospitals tell parents that cosleeping is "never" safe over some stupid liability crap. However, that sets up parents for failure. Some kids will sleep in a crib without trouble. Apparently, that was the case for both me and my husband. That was not the case for our kid. Parents need to know their options:

What Every Health Professional Should Know // Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory // University of Notre Dame

Professor James J. McKenna’s Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at Notre Dame studies how sleeping and co-sleeping environments affect mothers, breastfeeding, and infants’ physiological and psychological well-being and development.

cosleeping.nd.edu

We later admitted to our pediatrician that we were cosleeping, and he said that's OK because our son is breastfeeding, full-term, and we're not smoking.

Thanks. I needed this for future reference. BAH here I come!