Black actors are also increasingly being cast with colour-blind attitudes in mind: Britain's Idris Elba is in talks to replace Charlie Hunnam as the lead in romantic drama The Mountain Between Us, while Creed's Michael B Jordan is set to take the Steve McQueen/Pierce Brosnan role in a new remake of spy thriller The Thomas Crown Affair.
Or is that the kind of blind interventionist attitude that throws countries like Afghanistan into very, very long wars?
In a withering article Mario Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian novelist who is also Latin America's best-known liberal thinker, wrote that "we need a museum of memory to fight the intolerant, blind and obtuse attitudes which unleash political violence"—attitudes exemplified, he said, by Mr Flores-Aráoz's comments.The plan for the museum coincides with a wider re-examination of Peru's violent years.
As a pretty much non-practising Roman Catholic, but one who won't deny a centuries-old heritage of Catholicism which has imprinted itself in my genes, I read with disappointment the blind and unhelpful attitude of Richard Dawkins towards Pope Benedict XVI (Critics call for arrest of pope on UK visit, 12 April).
It is sometimes tempting to warn people not to fall for a "grass is always greener" attitude, blind to what being a full-time stay-at-home parent actually entails.
How much of this results from selection bias for women with different background characteristics, from difference in seeking medical advice due to health symptoms because of knowing the treatment or not, or from a delay in diagnoses due to the effect of blinding on the attitudes of physicians and patients needs further research.
"With this, we are now calling for a positive change of attitudes towards blind and other disabled persons in Sierra Leone".
No doubt there is some truth here, but this general attitude blinds us to how crippling the exercise of our reasoning faculties can often be.
"The Government appear all too ready to impose higher costs and regulations on well-run community pubs but are prepared to turn a blind eye to the irresponsible attitude towards alcohol expressed by the supermarkets".
With a lax attitude and a blind eye towards academic dishonesty at the university level, it is entirely possible that some individuals in whom Thai society places their safety and trust are under-qualified if not wholly unqualified for the positions they hold.
