When Ignorance Is Wrong

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Judgement is cast down upon us wherever we go. People will judge you secretly, and try to use stereotypes on you. They will try to use their “acts of knowledge” and sway what you think or believe. Some may be wrong, others may be right. Many people say that there are three sides to a story, your side, the other person’s side, and the truth. In society, there are many flaws and problems. Once of the problems we are born with is ignorance. Everyone experiences guidelines in their lifetime. You may not notice, but they surround society like a shroud. Something to support this claim is “For every girl who throws out her E-Z bake oven, there is a boy who wishes to find one.” People try to include guidelines in life, and enforce stereotypes on others …show more content…

It chases us, some of us want to be right, but are we really? We could be wrong, but just not notice. An example of this is a quote from a story, “To them, I said the truth would literally nothing but the shadows themselves.” This quote is meant to picture people only seeing shadows or “illusions” and not reality. If people spend their life chasing shadows, or illusions, how would they know what reality is or how to experience it? What would be the difference of reality and illusions to them? It shows that ignorance is something you are born with. You believe everything at a young age, and can’t tell right from wrong. It’s the same thing with ignorance. How can you tell illusions from reality? People’s guidelines, and what they are told conflict with that is really right. The illusions given to people are ignorance they are born with. Another quote to support this is, “Last of all, he will be able to see the sun, and not mere reflections of him in water, but he will see him in his own proper place, and not in another, and he will contemplate him as he is.” This quote shows that once you learn the truth, see past all of the illusions, you will get enlightenment. A reason why people’s beliefs set the standards of what they believe. Illusions and reality will affect them, and shows them the way. If we were born with no ignorance, how different would the world be? Who

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