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!