Which is worse ?

Question

Ignorance or Apathy?

Answer 1

Ignorance can be remedied by simply presenting knowledge.  Apathy is a matter of motivation, which is a great deal harder to change.  So apathy is worse.

Answer 2

,,,ignorance...yet, it can be changed with learning...

Answer 3

To be certain, apathy.  To ignore the cries of your brothers and sisters knowingly is a crime.  To ignore them because of ignorance is innocence. If you'll have it, God is said to love children because they are ignorant of the ways of sin.  Once they begin to grow older, they learn the ways of man and are given choices.  Good or Evil?

Answer 4

Apathy.

I cannot change what I do not know of.

Answer 5

Apathy is far worse.

Everyone is ignorant to some things.

But ignorance has a cure; it's called knowledge.

Apathy is neither love nor hate; however, it's

that lack of compassion/empathy which lumps

apathy into a far worse/evil category than hate

itself. Here's the deal..an ignorant person might

do something wrong simply because they don't

know that what they're doing is wrong. But the

person with apathy will do the wrong thing with the

full knowledge that it's absolutely wrong; only they

simply don't even care.

Peace/Joy

Answer 6

Ignorance. Ignorance, means that you've just never seen it before... that perhaps you would care if you did see it.

Apathy, means you know exactly what's going on, and you refuse to try and make it better.

If everyone in the world was Apathetic, then we would still be in caves. The act of trying literally is what makes us move forward as a species.

However, if everyone was ignorant (which everyone is, in one way or another) then, someone would finally open their eyes and be able to get out of those caves.

Answer 7

Apathy. At least with Ignorance, you can learn.

Answer 8

Apathy (also called impassivity or perfunctoriness) is a state of indifference, where an individual has an absence of interest or concern to certain aspects of emotional, social, or physical life.

Ignorance is the condition of being uninformed or uneducated, lacking knowledge or information.

To be informed and remain indifferent in my opinion is worse than being ignorant.

Good question.  Thank you.