Today's Takeaway

We are starting this new thing called actually thinking instead of just reciting what we did in class each day. So I'm starting fresh and just posting about today. Hopefully I will be more consistent because it does seem like fun posting all of my thoughts and things and I do not want to be a block head.

(That was a photo from my trip last summer to Iceland by the way. I like Iceland. It's nice.)
Today we had a pop-debate on all the events that could've triggered the War of 1812. The group that I ended up choosing as being the reason, was incitement because I decided that basically, in a nutshell, once weapons are involved, there is no going back and they are a much more real and much more personal threat than anything else we discussed.
My real takeaway wasn't on the topic itself though. I found it much more interesting that many people in the class chose the group who had the most confidence instead of the most supporting facts. I found it interesting that everyone just chose the more glorified group when in reality, had the same group been debating a completely different side, people would have gone with the completely different side because that side would've then been read with confidence. (I hope that made some sort of sense.) No matter how the information is conveyed, all that matters is the information itself and I thought that a lot of people didn't do that, they just looked at how it was conveyed.
But I also must admit, that I don't believe any of these single events themselves started the war but they were more each like stones in avalanche. You don't know what really "started it" because they all did, but I think that there was a "best answer" (as MCAS people put it and mine would be incitement) They were all very important in their own way and that is my takeaway.

Until next time!