More knowledge does not necessarily produce ethical rejection of empire.

Evidence

Several premises are questionable in these arguments: one, that more knowledge necessarily leads to more power; two, that knowledge necessarily leads to ethical awareness; and three, that such awareness would produce the sort of active, ethical conscience that would lead people to reject imperial hypocrisies, or, at the very least, its basest acts. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1343

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Extends the ‘On Sacrifice’ piece’s skepticism toward redemptive moral frameworks in empire studies.
• XREF: connects to: Darwinian kinship knowledge has not yet produced an ecological ethic. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 387