No policy has been altered, no bill or vote willfully changed.
The company has willfully changed its product countless times over the years, ignoring its users, the developers on its platform, its advertisers, privacy advocates, politicians, etc. Facebook protest pages (um), scathing articles, and petitions to quit have pressured Facebook revert back from whatever it was trying to do.
The National Academy of Science's new report, Abrupt Impacts of Climate Change, states: "To willfully ignore the threat of abrupt change could lead to more costs, loss of life, suffering, and environmental degradation … The time is here to be serious about the threat of tipping points so as to better anticipate and prepare ourselves for the inevitable surprises".
Until we muster that courage, we will remain willfully blind, and our reluctance to change will render us forever prisoners of the powerful.
The fact that junk food is willfully engineered to be addictive does not change this message.
Republicans often willfully equate weather with climate, declaring climate change a hoax by citing local instances of particularly egregious snow or rain.
Those who resist a radical change in our energy infrastructure are willfully and wittingly leaving more of these bills to their kids.
(Not that it will change their mind if they are willfully ignorant).
"We've made the alien's head longer and its tail spikier," they'd claim, willfully refusing to recognise that they had basically changed nothing, because Giger's work could not be improved upon.
Alpher sees more recent advocates of "regime change" as another instance of Israelis who "willfully or erroneously engage in wishful thinking and ignore the dramatic change that has taken place in Iran's power structure since the shah's day".
