Is there knowledge we should not seek? Or is all knowledge inherently and can only persons be harmful?

        Should we seek knowledge no matter what it takes? This may sound strange and most people would defiantly answer that of course there is some knowledge that is not worth to seek. But still there are some controversial questions about this theme. The main question is – for what? For what purpose the knowledge is searched. For example if I kill a person just to know how does it feels of course it would be stupid and that kind of knowledge would gain no approval from the society. But what if some scientists state that it would take a thousand people’s lives to find a cure for AIDS. Would it be all right to kill thousand men for all the rest of those who are infected? Probably it may sound very amoral at the beginning but then if I think of those millions who could be saved. To my mind it is acceptable to sacrifice even human lives in the name of a good purpose. So it is the purpose that makes knowledge important and as we know nothing is valuable if it has no importance and purpose. So there I come to the next question – how the knowledge will be used or whether the knowledge will be used at all. For example there were some scientists who invented electricity and atomic energy to improve the living standards so that people would have light at night and that people could heat their houses during the cold nights but then they realize that this knowledge could also be used for some different purposes and they invented electric chairs and atomic bombs. Most of the knowledge have different ways of using it so this remains in people’s hands to decide how to use the perceived knowledge - the scientists who invented nuclear energy an electricity did not mean to use it for bad purposes. But if they would not discover such inventions there also would not be any one who would realize that there is other uses for nuclear energy or electricity. But then again – so what, that we know how to kill a man with electricity or how to make an atomic bomb. The question is whether we will do it? We can keep an electric chair or nuclear explosives at home and it will do no harm to anyone if we will not use them. Everyone of us knows a whole bunch of rude words but that does not mean that all we do is go around and say them to every next person we meet on the street. People have to realize what knowledge can be used in the exact situation. With the knowledge is just like with the good manners – you have to know what to do or say in the exact situations. We can have the knowledge and we can try to perceive the knowledge but still we have to know when and how to use it otherwise the knowledge is not beneficial or can even be harmful. For example if people are sitting in a bright room in the middle of the day nobody is thinking about turning on the lights because there is no use for it neither no one is trying to water the garden when it is raining. What I want to say is that actually a person have to have some background knowledge about the knowledge he is seeking so it would be used in an appropriate way. And here appears one more aspect of the knowledge – the relationship to it. It is important whether the knowledge is general or individual. By general knowledge it is mean the knowledge that is important to the whole society not directly for one individual. For example air pollution – it is problem for everyone but it does not directly affect one single person. That is why many people do not try to deal with the problem or they try to deal with it all together. But the perception of personal knowledge can be different to different individuals depending on persons relationship with the knowledge. For example I find out that my girlfriend is cheating on me. So I immediately react on this knowledge and try to deal with it. But if I find out that a man in The United States is cheating on his wife I would take no action as it does not bother me. So also it is important to know how the knowledge could be related to us as it would significantly differ our reaction to it and especially if it is personal knowledge it may be much more harmful as it affects directly our lives.

        Actually it is not knowledge that can do any harm or benefit to us but it is the way how we interpret and use it. We can have all the knowledge there is in the world an it would do nothing if we would just know it. The main problem is what to do with the knowledge. People have to realize where and how to use the knowledge and whether to use it at all. Only if it is used in an appropriate way then we can benefit from the knowledge otherwise it is a complete waste. It is easy to find an inappropriate use for any knowledge we have so it is not a great ability to use it in the wrong way for example I know how to eat with a folk but I also realize that it is possible to kill a person with that folk but that does not mean that I will go and right away kill the first man on the street. The main competence is to have enough knowledge to use the knowledge we have in an appropriate way and in the real time. Otherwise the knowledge is useless and may even be harmful to the person who has it and also to others around him.