Today was the first day of my philosophy: focus on critical thinking class, and the professor opened with a question,
"If the most significant person in your life believed Santa Claus existed, would it affect your feelings in the relationship to the point of ending the relationship?"
It was posed to argue that what other people believe should matter to us.
Ever the skeptic, I immediately thought, NO. Thinking of my father, and that he is entitled to believe what he wants, and also that my relationship with him would never end, and if it did certainly not over something so arbitrary.
Anyway, bc it was the first day, i kept my mouth shut, and he went on to declare that he "guarantees" it would end the relationship. No exceptions, no nothing.
A hypothetical situation paired with an absolute truth? What! In a critical thinking classroom? That seems so illogical to me.
I'm pretty sure it wasn't a trick, He seemed to sure of himself for it to be a ploy
2007-08-30
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