Critical Thinking Blog V

According to Dictionary .com Critical thinking is “disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence” but to me critical thinking is more than just rationalizing things. I believe that everyone who thinks critically in some way are all connected. When arguments occur people explain their feelings on a certain issue, but what they don’t realize is that each person’s thoughts actually are a piece of what needs to be done in order to fix the issue. In my Blog A I explained that critical thinking is a way to organize thoughts and combine both arguments into one. What I was saying was that in critical thinking a person personal view is different from another but almost every time each person’s view has an idea that can help in the issue. I remember in high school I had to do a paper about the death penalty. I had to decide if I was for it or against it. I was against it but my teacher was for it. My teacher and I started to discuss why we feel the way we felt about it. He was for it because it can strike fear in the criminals that are about to plot to do something and it will reduce more crimes. He believed that the people who do the most gruesome things to kill should be killed so that they don’t have the chance to do it again. I understood what he was saying. I then explained my side. I talked to him about an eye for an eye situation and told him that it will never solve anything. He looked at me and said you know what you are right. He stilled believed what he believed but I at least let him see both sides of the spectrum. That being said Critical thinking is a way to openly listen to both sides of an issue in order to find pieces of things from both sides to combine and use to fix an issue. This way both arguments are acknowledged and used to make a brighter future. Two other words that I learned this week was Trailblazer and implore. Trailblazer means pathfinder. A person who finds the set path that will lead them into finding the career choices for them. Implore means to beg.