But, beyond the material benefits that accompanied it, this amnesty led to a sort of wilful amnesia which forbade questioning the legacy of Francoism.
His flowing, opaque style can be challenging, but this parable of wilful unseeing, which resists reductive interpretations, is full of insight and poetry.
Sadly, attempts to record La Bohème and Wozzeck proved abortive because of Kleiber's wilful behaviour, which led Deutsche Grammophon to lose patience with its star conductor.
Mr Hakin added: "Rebecca's death was a direct consequence of a prolonged course of wilful neglect, which involved a failure to provide an adequate supply of sufficiently nutritious food and denial of access to medical aid.
Far from bringing helpful clarity, information is being used as a smokescreen to cover up the government's wilful inaction, which serves corporate interests rather than the public good.
The revelations of the sheer scale of individual failures and institutional blindness verging on wilful ignorance, which allowed Jimmy Savile to abuse hundreds of children mean that every case of alleged abuse of children by prominent figures, now being considered by prosecutors, carries a huge weight of expectation.
A separate police investigation has accused iron miner Samarco of wilful misconduct, which the firm denies.
"It was just an exercise in wilful absurdity, which is why he was doing it," Sullivan said.
We suggest this is a form of wilful blindness which leads to inaction, maintains the status quo, produces more talk about health inequalities but little fundamental change – in other words, a health system which remains part of a broader system that undermines the health of disadvantaged while "privileged" health professionals continue to meter out medical and lifestyle advice.
Prof Berwick said charges should be applied where organisations misled regulators or in the rare cases in which "wilful or reckless neglect" by organisations or individuals had harmed patients.
