Critical Thinking Quotes

“For example, suppose I said that selling unsafe products was wrong because it hurt people (and hurting people is wrong), and you responded by saying that everyone does it. Your statement would be irrelevant because whether everyone does it doesn’t affect whether it’s wrong—unless you define “right” as “whatever everyone does.”
― Peg Tittle, Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason

“In a recent experiment, scientific researchers exposed a group of teenaged boys to an arcade game, and found that all of them had unclean sexual thoughts. Of course, the researchers got the same result when they exposed the boys to coleslaw, an alpaca sweater, and “The MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour.” Dave Barry, Dave Barry’s Bad Habits , 1985”
― Peg Tittle, Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason

“We are standing in a pool of gasoline. Tom says we should not light any matches. Dick says we should light all the matches we have. I propose a compromise: let’s light half of the matches in our possession.”
― Peg Tittle, Critical Thinking: An Appeal to Reason