Uhm. Your arguments would be valid about feeding wild raccoons, or other animals. However, actually taking one in as a pet – committing to feeding it and to keeping it around you – negates those objections; it no longer has to hunt and its behavior won’t get it killed if it’s on your property. Might not be a bad idea to put a very visible collar on it to signal its status to other humans, though, so they know its behavior is from acclimation rather than disease and that someone will be upset if they kill it… and so they can contact you if it’s being a nuisance.
(Compare to cats, or to free-roaming dogs in areas which still permit that. Though, admittedly, people expect many cats to be pets and most will cut them a bit more slack.)
