I didn't really understand the necessity of this chapter. I understand the concept of why arguments are good and bad. Of course, someone makes a bad argument if there are illogical ideas, misinterpretation of info, and/or missing facts.
Arguments can be challenging situations. We need to leave all the arguing to the politicians and old people. We ( my generation) argues too much and for all the wrong reasons. Arguments should not be an effective way of communication, yet it is probably the most popular. Arguments should only be dissected and analyzed the way they do by lawyers (most of which go onto politics).
The biggest reason people hate politics is because of the misinterpretation of what it really happening in America. People will believe anything if one person says it right. I feel this is what arguments has come to because of politics. If one politician says something eloquently, his or her audience will believe it.
I think that because information is so easy to access nowadays people easily get influenced left and right. Like, when determining a location to go. People use yelp to find the ratings and comments about the place. When people are determining if a movie is worth the watch they go to rotten tomatoes and IMDB and look up all of the comments, ratings, storylines. In comparison to how people just walk-in and try the restaurant and just going to watch the movie or asking a friend what they thought of said movie. You would think that with the Internet an cell phones people would learn to research before judging but turns out they just take whatever is thrown at them.
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