Radical and Moral Implications
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The book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman talks about two types of thinking. He argued that there are two ways of thinking, which are fast and slow. He then adds that thinking is in two modes, system one and system two. In system one, the person can think quickly, natural, spontaneous, and insensible. System two is slower, more thoughtless, and emotively bastille. Here a person may also have control over his thinking. There is a struggle between the two thinking modes, which is seen in everyone. System two always admits and concludes everyone needs to have more physical workouts, consume less, be more giving and less choleric, and be a time manager and more productive.
System one may be against the above reactions where one feels lazy and not willing to do anything. It triggers you to do luxury things like always eating and having snaps, which leads to regrets at the end of everything. It makes anyone not make the right decision. Daniel Kahneman comes with his opinion n in which he admits not to waiting for people and making his decisions. He admits not complying with time-wasting.
I agree with the arguments in his book. I sometimes decide to do something important, like doing my assignments on time, but I find myself postponing everything because of going online to view statuses on WhatsApp. On my side, the system one has overwhelmed my system two thinking. I find it challenging to make the right decision. I dwell much on doing luxury things that may not help me at the end. Therefore the argument by Kahneman is right, in my opinion. His arguments are not derivative of logical fallacy in the author’s work because no imitations are seen in his document.
The argument is related to a theory that I once read on decision making, which states that competing concerns are associated with evaluation and selection among competing alternatives. One has to make the right decision for succession in life. Chankong & Maneetien, 2018.
One of my classmate’s posts demonstrated a deferent argument from mine. He argued that he always shows more system two thinking, unlike me, who shows system one thinking mode. He says that he always plans for everything on time and goes by the planned schedule, unlike me, who is always carried away by the online matters and forego the school assignments. He makes his priorities right and keeps his concentration on them. He makes choices that make him stick on the right thing and significant most on education. He believes that this will bring value to his life at the end. He makes what he makes a habit; this may make him successful in forming a good character.
The first statement, which talks of marijuana being legalized, may lead to many people consuming it match with fallacy ad vericundiam. It assumes that the only way the whole population will start using marijuana is by legalizing it.
The second statement, which talks about twenty-one years as the appropriate age of maturity, match with the fallacy of false dichotomy. It assumes that a person is fully mature at the age of twenty-one of which is not. Anyone at the age of fifteen may be able to make a decision.
Ad hominem fallacy matches with the third statement, which states that giving education of birth control methods to girls will make them get impregnated. It means that the person assumes that this education on birth control methods will trigger more girls into getting impregnated.
The fourth statement about culture wars of the 1960s, resulting in parents not controlling their children after the second world war, matched a confusing cause and effect. Shows that there is an assumption that the war resulted from the concluded incident.
The last statement about Al Gore claims on climate change being a dangerous trend matches the fallacy begging the question. The person goes with his conclusion, and no particular evidence is provided.
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Chankong, T., & Maneetien, N. (2018). The development of case-based learning for an antenna engineering course using folklore. Engineering and Applied Science Research, 45(3), 251-255.