Socrates wrongdoing virtue knowledge ignorance

Socrates linked wrongdoing to ignorance

For Socrates, people who did wrong had failed to understand what was good. He summed up this view with the claim that “no one errs willingly”: moral failure came from ignorance, not a knowing choice of evil.

New York crime kept falling after stop-and-frisk ended

Violent crime in New York City had already fallen by more than 75% from 1993 to 2005. It kept falling after the NYPD ended its large stop-and-frisk program, even though the program had often been given credit for the earlier drop.

Ancient viruses can leave pieces of themselves in DNA

If viral DNA enters the cells that produce offspring, it can be passed down for many generations. Scientists can study these old pieces of viral DNA to learn about viruses that existed millions of years ago, even though viruses rarely leave ordinary fossils.

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Socrates linked wrongdoing to ignorance

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