Saturday, January 14, 2012

logical reasoning helps us decide (#1079)

Not all decisions are made based upon logic. Matters of love and such emotional expoeriences have often and necessarily been devoid of logic. How we feel, such as gut feelings or intuition has a way of over coming any logical equation we may choose to employ. Outside of personal intimate situations, logic becomes a greater factor. I find that logic has dominance over the inanimate world whereas less so when it comes to our interpersonal-relationships with each other. When a nation is starving, there is little time to logically assimilate a solution based upon statistics or cost/benefit. There is only time to do what our gut tells us to do and that is to stop the starvation and work toward helping them keep themselves out of starvation. However, when it comes to policies, like some examples of bettering health, safety and security we need to apply all the logic we have to navigate the complex social order we live within. Sometimes, it seems much easier to change the social order than to adapt a plan to the existing one that accomplishes our goals. This is somewhat the struggle we are now in, in our society. Regardless of how it comes out, logic has to be at the foundation of it. We have principles that guide us but putting those principles into a harmony of effectiveness has to be logical. Logic goes mainly like this; if something, then something. The if/then process should be our initial thought when dealing with all basic common goals. Everyone should participate and offer information and knowledge that can allow us to sift through logical and illogical premises in order to find our best path. Life can be very easy to understand once we get our foundational way of doing things in some logically reasoned order.

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