{"id":2678,"date":"2017-07-29T08:35:08","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T12:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/woulduconsider.wpcomstaging.com\/?p=2678"},"modified":"2021-03-27T00:06:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T00:06:44","slug":"the-difference-between-critical-thinking-and-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corneliascottcree.com\/the-difference-between-critical-thinking-and-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference between Critical Thinking and Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Consider these conversations:
Two women are playing bridge. They have known each other about 2 months.
Maxine: You need to lose some weight.<\/em>
Carol: (says nothing)
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A month later:
Maxine: You really should lose some weight so you won\u2019t have trouble breathing.<\/em>
Carol: What makes you think you have the standing to make a comment about my weight?<\/em>
Maxine: (Taken aback- says nothing)
There are 14 other people in the room and now they are all listening.
Carol: Standing is a legal term. When parties go to court the judge needs to know if they have a right to be involved in the case and the law it concerns. For example, a private citizen cannot go to court about a Home School law unless he is a home schooling parent.<\/em>
You brought a charge against me about my weight without having any legal reason to do so, and on top of that you have no relevant facts in the case. I ignored your previous comments because your opinion is of no value. The judge throws out any persons who do not have standing, and I threw out what you said because you have no standing. In other words, your opinion is of no value to me.<\/em>
Maxine: But I know you will breathe better if you lose weight.<\/em>
Carol: That is not knowledge; that is an opinion based on an assumption.\u00a0 You do not have the facts in the case. I have seen my doctor 3 times in the past 7 months and not once did he mention my weight. Bless his heart. <\/em>
If you are a dietitian\u00a0or medical professional you have standing, otherwise none. Is your emotional assumption more valuable to me than his professional life of medical experience? Hardly.<\/em>
Maxine: But I know that overweight people have trouble breathing.<\/em>
Carol: That is true, but you don\u2019t know that I almost died at 9 years of age of pneumonia.\u00a0 I was so thin the neighbor asked my mother who that child was with her. I never could begin school in September on the first day because I couldn\u2019t breathe – my lungs were badly\u00a0damaged. I never mentioned this because you are not my friend; you are a sometime bridge player. I might have asked you about bridge; you have standing on that issue.\u00a0 You have no standing to criticize my health or my physical body.<\/em>
I do have people in my life that I consult. One couple here in town is so important to me that no matter what they ask I respond! They asked me to run for office and I was elected.\u00a0 I really had no interest in the office but because I trust their judgment, which they have proven to me, I complied. I have no history with you.<\/em>
You based your comments solely on your assumptions which were wrong. In addition, comments about someone\u2019s physical body are considered rude.<\/em>
That is the difference between critical thinking and emotional opinion. \u00a0Critical thinking is based on standing acquired by information and understanding; ad hominum remarks are nothing but criticism based on assumption and personal bias.
Unfortunately most of America is now indulging in the latter and public discourse has become rotten and unhinged.<\/p>\n

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