critically different, scenario—namely, one in which your accuser knows, indeed, that you did not apprehend the consequences of your action… but believes that you should have known, and that the fact of your ignorance itself constitutes a blameworthy act of negligence.
Ah yes. My phrasing was weak, but this is what I meant by:
that my doing X was careless
I admit, my memories of these situations are hazy. They’re from my childhood, and nowadays it doesn’t really happen because the filter I place in front of my friend group doesn’t allow this sort of person through (e.g. the kind who actually fails to exhibit information empathy, not the kind who enforces the “ignorance of the law is no excuse” norm). The specific person I have in mind is the sort who might semi-consciously decide to enforce that norm, but then take it to an unwarranted extreme, blaming others for things they couldn’t possibly have known not to do. Then again, they are also somebody I may be biased towards finding faults in. It’s possible this has rarely/never actually happened to me, but I figured the term is still a good one to throw out there.
Ah yes. My phrasing was weak, but this is what I meant by:
I admit, my memories of these situations are hazy. They’re from my childhood, and nowadays it doesn’t really happen because the filter I place in front of my friend group doesn’t allow this sort of person through (e.g. the kind who actually fails to exhibit information empathy, not the kind who enforces the “ignorance of the law is no excuse” norm). The specific person I have in mind is the sort who might semi-consciously decide to enforce that norm, but then take it to an unwarranted extreme, blaming others for things they couldn’t possibly have known not to do. Then again, they are also somebody I may be biased towards finding faults in. It’s possible this has rarely/never actually happened to me, but I figured the term is still a good one to throw out there.