True! That's an easy way to get away with lying just feign ignorance. No one can prove otherwise. The consequences for being a dumbass are way less than the co

True! That's an easy way to get away with lying just feign ignorance. No one can prove otherwise. The consequences for being a dumbass are way less than the consequences for outright lying. Since there's not way to prove one way or another it comes down to PRINCIPLES instilled in people to value the truth, principles from my limited observations that seem to be viewed as less important nowadays. The truth is an obstacle to forcing ones values on the world. Hence, why it seems to me like we're entering a 'post-truth society'. Interesting side note however, according to the legal system, ignorance of the law is not an acceptable way out of crime, because the law, by necessity, places as high a value as possible on finding the truth.