The doctrine serves to override attempts to self-immunize against criminal liability by deliberately refusing. The doctrine attributes "knowledge to a party whose strong suspicions have been aroused but who refrains from making inquiries to have those suspicions confirmed. Wilful blindness refers to the accused's state of mind.
Like Lear, we can learn to see better, not just because our brain changes but because we do.Wilful Blindness. The very fact that willful blindness is willed, that it is a product of a rich mix of experience, knowledge, thinking, neurons, and neuroses, is what gives us the capacity to change it.
Public officials need not have actual knowledge of torture to have engaged in willful blindness. responsibility to intervene when they engage in "willful blindness" or "turn a blind eye to torture." SuarezValenzuela v. 1 In common usage, however, the term ‘wilful blindness’ evokes a much broader spectrum of phenomena, behaviours and mental states. In criminal law, wilful blindness refers to ‘the deliberate avoidance of knowledge of the facts’ that is, a person avoids gaining knowledge as a means of avoiding self-incrimination.
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