Critical thinking is purposeful and reflective judgment about what to believe or do in response to observations, experience, verbal or written expressions, or arguments. Critical thinking might involve determining the meaning and significance of what is observed or expressed, or, concerning a given inference or argument, determining whether there is adequate justification to accept the conclusion as true. Hence, Fisher & Scriven define critical thinking as "Skilled, active, interpretation and evaluation of observations, communications, information, and argumentation -to a certian extent i'm playng devils advocate In common parlance, a devil's advocate is someone who takes a position, sometimes one he or she disagrees with, for the sake of argument. This process can be used to test the quality of the original argument and identify weaknesses in its structure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devils_advocate because your apparent whinny thoughtles pacifism annoys me you contend that anyone thats picks up a rifle to defend themself is insane or a criminal, i'm trying to point out to you thats fighting for a just cause is not insane it is RATIONAL are you saying anyone that has fouhgt off invaders defended women and children from rapists and murderers is a fool? that joan of arc was a warmonger for trying to expell british invaders from the sacred soil of france that the brave american men and women that fought hitler were warmongers? americans are usually reluctant to fight,,they were in ww2 we were very isolationist but once americans realized how rotten the axis was the terrible things they were doing and how they were a theat to the survival of our nation they fought so heroically to save the world i'm not midlessly glorifying war one the contrary i am trying to make you think!
that maybe war is insane maybe the humans race appears to be crazy but its not that simple nothing is that simple some people have to do terrible things to survive to win to make the world better and more peacefull sometimes you have to drop a little napalm and burn down dresden.