LongHairGal
What I came to see
is that not everybody is equally damaged by the Witness
religion. Some JWs have a nice life there and couldn’t relate to
any of this
That’s what makes
this a difficult subject for EXJWs to come to a consensus on this
subject. I’ve seen this debate on Reddit where thousands joined in
the debate, only to be split almost 50/50.
It’s not a new
problem. Even thousands of years ago, the ignorant goat headers who
wrote some of the bible stories seem to have started the debate with
their leanings toward the idea that Ignorance is not an excuse.
Leviticus
5:17 “If you sin and break
any of the commands that the Lord
said must not be done, you are guilty. Even if you did not
know about it, you are still responsible for your sin.
This
idea was carried on through the dark ages.
As
human thinking continued to evolve, the viewpoint started slanting
the other way.
During
the Enlightenment and in the 18th century, given the heavy
proportion of illiterate citizens in European countries (who would
have some difficulties being aware of all the laws in a country) this
was a problem. It was then argued that both the presumed knowledge
and the heavily increasing corpus of national legislation were
working in favour of lawyers rather than citizens. Thus an excuse
for wrongdoing came into play.
As time went on,
humans started using this excuse to commit atrocities to others
humans and getting away with it. In one of my College classes, the
professor asked us to write a paper on one way we could get away with
Murder, based on a TV series named, “How to get away with murder”
And as you probably
know, during the Nuremberg trials, many former SS Nazi soldiers were
indicted for war crimes against humanity. The most popular excuse
these Nazi soldiers used, was “I was just following Orders” or I
was indoctrinated.
In modern times the
general rule is that ignorance of the law is not a valid defense.
There are some
jurisdictions, where there are exceptions to the general rule, but to
prove that, a person has to be very wealthy to hire the best lawyers,
and in some cases, pay off the judge, and perhaps the jury.
This is what happens
when you have some 8 Billion plus, humans screaming different
religious views, and chanting different political ideologies, and hundreds of races and genders.
IT’S A CRAZY WORLD
WE LIVE IN!
