�Ignorant or stupid?�

Friday, October 16, 2015

There is a huge difference between ignorance and stupidity. Ignorance simply means not knowing something. Stupidity is not being able to know anything. I’m entirely ignorant about Mongolian poetry, but I know what both Mongolia and poetry are and if I decided to I could probably learn about the subject. So I hope I’m not stupid.

At Consumer Watchdog I have to confess that we do sometimes encounter people who are stupid. Really, really stupid. But for every stupid person we meet we probably meet another 99 who are simply ignorant. They’re certainly not stupid but there’s just an area of their lives (like Mongolian poetry) where they simply don’t have the knowledge needed to make rational judgments.

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