I was glancing over the examples without thinking too much about it until I came to a mislabeled fish. It was clearly a tiny flounder (a "bony fish") of the type commonly sold in pet stores, yet it was labeled as a "skate" and classified as "Class: Chondrichthyes" ("cartilaginous fish").
I pointed out this error to the teacher. To me it was a critical mistake, on the level of claiming a dolphin is a fish or a bat is a bird. But the teacher just said "for our purposes, it is a Chondrichthyes".
I said he was misleading his students in this way; he was not educating them, but giving them false information. In fact, I just wouldn't shut up about it.
He said I was beating a dead horse" and I needed to "drop it". Even on my test, though, I wrote a comment about "mislabeled as..." rather than just letting it go.
Yes, I was a pain even then.
That's why I still speak out. I value the truth. Truth, even when inconvenient, painful, or annoying is still better than a comforting lie. Liberty is better for the individual than The State. Taxation is theft. The military is anti-liberty and pro-tyranny. And no amount of denial will change the facts.
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