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low_ho_fosho · 3478 days ago · link · · parent · post: If You Don't Know You Are Held Captive, Does It Matter?
Adam and Eve ate an apple, gained the knowledge of sin, and as the story goes things went downhill from there. I think there's always the possibility that we might be better off without certain pieces of knowledge (the atom bomb), but we can also become better off via new knowledge at least as often (vaccines). Adam and Eve lived in a utopia. We don't. At the point where there is something to be gained, we should always be searching for new knowledge, hoping that a new piece of information might be the key that unlocks the cage we never knew we were in.