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Can Knowledge Be Harmful

There have been many times in my life when I have heard people use idiomatic expressions such as "some things are better left unsaid" and "what you don't know can't hurt you." I had never thought too much about these statements before, merely assuming them to be random expressions with no debatable meaning. However, several days ago I was talking with one of my friends about dating and she said "the knowledge that he's going out with her is painful enough." This got me thinking. Is it knowledge itself that is harmful and that we should not seek/know, or is knowledge impartial and it is the person that is harmful or construes the knowledge as harmful? In order to answer this question, I first asked myself: what is knowledge? While the question is remarkably broad, I simply took a simple definition and considered it: knowledge is a body of truths or facts gained over time through experience and the understanding of concepts and ideas. With this in mind, I then contemplated: is......


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