I'm old enough where I no longer feel any sympathy for nor have any patience left for the stupid. They need to be apologizing to everyone who is more intelligent than they are. These days I refuse to apologize to someone who is stupid for my being more intelligent than they are (as was my habit all my life). And if you want to include who and what they need to apologize to, to include all species that are more intelligent than they are, then they even need to apologize to their own cats that can outsmart them and escape from safe confinement -- dumber than even their own cats -- proved by their own cats. (I know this is a little off-topic from what you stated, but I wanted a chance to mention it. :-) )