By your definition (and everybody else’s), I am wilfully ignorant. I most definitely have firm opinions on many topics, will no longer look at conflicting views, and I most definitely think that some who disagree with them are stupid. In fact, that was the reason that Medium threatened to suspend me. Some people didn’t like being called stupid.

My article mentions very sold reasons why people won’t look further. There is another reason, and in this case it is that people have already researched the topic extensively. For instance, I spent many decades of my life believing in god. I subsequently spent a decade in deep study of the bible (every single word of it), and another decade or so studying comparative religion and other bs.

I am not going to spend one more minute of my life arguing over that bs. I have no interest in converting people to my way of thinking, etc. Yet, I will be called wilfully ignorant.

Again, there is no such thing as being wilfully ignorant. No one sticks to their opinions because they don’t want to know better. What is true is that those who call others wilfully ignorant resent not having their opinions listened to and understood.