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Originally Posted by Kudryavka
If you don't know that there's a problem, how are you supposed to know you need to fix it?
Yes people who are mean on purpose have malicious intent, but the key is that they can change and stop whenever they want to. A ignorant person does not know that they're being mean, so they cannot possibly stop whenever they want to, not without someone telling them what's wrong. I would think the ignorant person will do it more often than the mean person because the ignorant one believes he's being nice. There are more well-meaning people in the world than mean, evil ones who are mean on purpose.
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Arguing for well-intentioned as the worst kind in terms of aggregate social effect? If so I don't have sufficient data to agree or disagree but on gut feeling alone I'd have to conceded that it seems errors of ignorance would be significantly more numerous.
Nature, and to a much lesser mandatory education, both leave humans ill equipped to handle cultural differences.