Nintendownsmii said:
She is by far the worse offender in this case. She was ignorant and knew of her own ignorance and did nothing to fix it. While the others did not know they were ignorant, thus could not do anything to try to fix it. One who doesn't know the limits of their knowledge is a lot easier to correct than the person who knows the limits of their knowledge and doesn't care to expand them. Thinking a religous leader like martain luther would ever say a line like that is much more ignorant than the mistaking of historical figures due to their names being identical excepting 2 letters.
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Well isn’t this rich. In a bizarre sort of twist, your response provides a timely proof of the rule. There would be 6 letters different, if you count the Jr, as Martin Luther was not a King. But let us not quibble over such inanities.
If you could, for a moment, try looking at the bigger picture. While it’s a very sad thing that few know their history, I would rather someone acknowledge they’re not certain, try to think through what they believe the answer is, and be open to correction if they are wrong.
I thought this would be a fairly straight forward concept. Ever read Plato recount Socrates’ search for wisdom? It’s a similar principle. Remember how he questioned those that claimed to be great thinkers from various backgrounds throughout Athens? It was a quest to find men of great wisdom. He concluded that the men he questioned were not wise at all despite their claims to great insight. He decided that those aware of their own ignorance were the wiser while those who thought themselves wise were really fools.
Of course his discovery did not go over very well with the influential of the day. He made them look like the fools they were and was later sentenced to death for his impertinence.
Full Disclosure: I did not pay Nintendownsmii any sum of money to word his post the way he did.
