It's willful. It's intentional.

It was willful blindness.

There's a lot of willful blindness around these days.

I can only assume you don't mean on trial for corporate malfeasance.

You could see willful blindness in the run up to the Iraq War.

Companies that have been studied for willful blindness can be asked questions like,

You can see willful blindness in the Catholic Church, where decades of child abuse went ignored.

That mask has caused enough mischief and malfeasance among the mortals. I curse the day you created that thing.

You can see willful blindness in banks, when thousands of people sold mortgages to people who couldn't afford them.

You can do whatever you want, but you're going to have to look comfortable answering patty's questions about corporate malfeasance, about accounting irregularities and about why you stole the life savings of 5,000 people.

Willful blindness exists on epic scales like those, and it also exists on very small scales, in people's families, in people's homes and communities, and particularly in organizations and institutions.

Willful blindness is a legal concept which means, if there's information that you could know and you should know but you somehow manage not to know, the law deems that you're willfully blind.

When I basically was still a willful adolescent till I stopped taking my medication and my, kind of memory of that time is waking up in an adolescent body which is hard enough body to live in anyway, but I wasn't prepared for it.