Years ago I called a city agency to report that some fairly good sized raccoons were deprecating my property. With an attitude dripping in assumed superiority, the lady explained to me that raccoons were cute little animals that never hurt anything and never grow any bigger than a teddy bear. My first house was on a few acres in the county, and as does anyone who has ever seen real raccoons in the wild, I knew better. There was no reasoning with her, because she knew I was ignorant and she was knowledgeable, and that was that.
And I learned something: Nothing is so ignorant as the assumption of other’s ignorance.
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