Fallacies of reasoning are easy traps to fall into. Whether it is absolutist thinking, straw man arguments or any number of other errors of thought, we are all prone to them, and I am sure that I am no exception. Our best defense against such faulty thinking is to try
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Politics and its Discontents: Absolutely!
For me, one of the biggest offenses against logical thinking is absolutism, which essentially says there is only one right answer, that everything is black or white, with no gradations of gray. An example would be Vic Toews infamous assertion, when controversy erupted over his deeply flawed Internet surveillance bill,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Margaret Wente Scores Another Win For Superficial Thinking
I suspect that with the exception of her employer, few believe The Globe’s Margaret Wente is a subtle thinker who deserves a forum in the self-proclaimed ‘newspaper of record.’ Her capacity for cartoonish characterization is especially apparent in her latest column where, borrowing liberally from a secondary source, as is
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The Latest Conservative Effort at Fostering Division and Discord
It would appear that Human Resources Minister Diane Finley is in the vanguard of the Harper regime’s latest ploy to sow dissension and suspicion, the ultimate goal being to pit Canadians against Canadians. Finley, whose inept handling of the Employment Insurance backlog earns her zero credibility in my book, seems
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