The Baker and the Farmer

People like to judge other people.
We always seem to have the appropriate adjective for people we deem to be inferior in some way. It seems like such a waste of time - judging other people when the time could be more efficiently spent evaluating yourself and making improvements.

There is a story about a baker in a little country town who bought the butter he used from a nearby farmer. One day he suspected that the bricks of butter were not full pounds, and for several days he weighed them.
He was right. He alerted the authorities and had the farmer arrested.
At the trial the judge said to the farmer, "I presume you have scales?"
"No, your honor," replied the farmer.
"Then how do you manage to weigh the butter you sell?" inquired the judge.
The farmer replied, "That's easily explained, your honor. I have balances and for a weight I use a one-pound loaf I buy from the baker."

Very often, the flaws in others are so much more conspicuous than our own. But before you start criticising them, examine yourself more closely, lest your own blemishes are unwittingly revealed..