Judas goats

Ignorance is one of the most dangerous things in the world, because when people don't understand something they fear it.

Unfortunately fear is often a learned response eliciting a fight or flight reaction that either doesn't solve the situation or makes it worse than it was.

People, who absolutely know better, take advantage of these things to further their own causes.  Instead of trying to educate people they encourage or incite them to react in violent or irrational ways, because it keeps them from looking at the real problems.

It is not enough to learn everything at your mother's knee.  Knowledge increases every day and mother may not be privy to the newest information.  Remember that once upon a time an atom was the smallest known particle and women were considered chattel.  We know better now.

We know lots of things now that we didn't know.  Don't allow yourself to be hand fed information by anyone.  Get out there and do some detective work!  Get several different sources, even go directly to the source,  so you aren't led like lambs to the slaughter. 

You absolutely cannot know too much.