Can innocence be associated with ignorance?

Question

Sometimes it just seems like the two go hand in hand.

(Notice, please, I said sometimes...not always).

Answer 1

So many answers have come as though the two are like synonyms, but my understanding is quite different.

Ignorance refers to lack of knowledge or understanding.

Innocence however refers to lack of ill will or mal-intent.

That is a major difference!!

The question is however very apt.... it is asking about innocence being associated sometimes with ignorance .... I would say
YES INDEED and perhaps more often than not!!
Innocence may very often be caused by ignorance... for instance, when one says bad things about us in a language that we do not understand, we may not respond with any ill will or tit for tat and that sort of response would look like innocence. The child may tell the truth to a question asked with a malintent because of the ignorance of the skewed objective in asking the question.

Answer 2

Ignorance is nothing more than the absence of knowledge. Sometimes, that's not a bad thing. Innocence is much the same in that it is a lack of exposure to corruption.

Although they may be similar, neither are wrong or bad. I hope I am ignorant and innocent for a long time....

Answer 3

"Ignorance" has a bad, but not deserved, connotation. An ignorant person is someone who does not know about something. I personally am completely ignorant of brain surgery, but I am NOT stupid.

Ignorance can be alleviated by education.

"Innocence" implies youth and lack of experience. Which can also be alleviated by education.

"Stupidity" is something else entirely, and cannot ever be fixed with education.

So, to answer your question, yes, innocence and ignorance can often be associated.

Answer 4

Yes innocence is a sub-set of ignorance. The kind that cannot be blamed on yr laziness or lack of curiosity.

Answer 5

Yes. Ignorance is bliss. Innocence is happiness. We move from youthful innocence (ignorance) toward age & experience (knowledge). We are born knowing nothing. The more we learn, the more we lose our innocence. Eventually, if we know too much, we can become jaded. Life begins to lose its lustre. We're not innocent anymore & life stops being magical. Unless you make an effort to keep some of your innocence. To believe in magic, just a little. Ignorance isn't such a bad word. It just means not knowing. Some things I wish I didn't know...

Answer 6

Maybe. Ignorance is the lack of knowledge. Just because you don't know about something doesn't make you innocent. I guess I don't understand your use of innocence?

Answer 7

Let's take the population of America for a brief study, they continue to ignore the governments actions throughout the world, and merely vote as an act of symbolism without knowing where the politicians stand on major issues. Ignorance as resulted in the accumulation of a monopoly in the US political structure, the poor have ignored, and in turn the rich have exploited. The government of this nation is made up of two supposedly opposing parties, but the fact of the matter is that they are not so different. They are both made of the Aristocratic elite, I mean the 2000 election for example. Both candidates Bush and Gore went to the same elite universities, secret socities trained to govern the mass for the purpose and will of the minority rich. Ignorance has led to pathetic beliefs that Saddam was a threat to US security and he had connections with terrorists, an unbelievable fabrication. Ignorance has led to the belief that pre-emptive warfare is a necessary means by which to secure a nations's defence. Ignorance has allowed the introduction of capitalism an economic system that means the majority are poor wage earners while the small corporate elite minority save up most of the rishes and capital without contribution to the economy themselves. Ignorance always leads to greater problems. There are two important decisions in life, to understand and know the truth, or completely ignore it and make up one's own fallacy. The latter seems to be working for a temporary time, but then leads to more problems. France let their monarch instill more and more restrictions on their rights, more and more taxes on the peasantry, and they ignored it and accepted it as merely their will in life. When the situation got so desperate, when they accepted the truth, much work had to be done to undo all that passed in ignorance, a bloody revolution was needed beccause time in fantasy resulted in the government gaining an incredible threshold upon the population. We don't need this but we must not ignore the current reality, but understand and try to find means to improve it.

Answer 8

Absolutely. Ignorant people, especially those who are ignorant through no fault of their own (which might otherwise amount to negligence) should not be thought to be guilty of crimes or responsible for misdeeds. Most legal codes even attempt to address this in certain ways.

Common examples are children, or the insane or mentally incompetent persons who unwittingly commit crimes.

Answer 9

There is a difference to me.....An ignorant person knows they are ignorant, but is just too lazy to care. An innocent person is eager to learn but hasn't been taught.

Answer 10

by definition... yes. although, ignorance seems to be a sullied word that has a social definition that makes an ignorant person seem less dignified... even though ignorant means that they just don't know something.