Logic is not our generation's strong suit. Most University students walk around holding many inconsistent and illogical beliefs on a regular basis. For example, many students believe "There is no Truth" or some variation (no absolutes, it's all relative), ignoring the fact they have just made a truth claim they believe is True. They will believe that everyone should be tolerant except against intolerant people. I have had people look me in the eye and tell me they don't really know if 2+2=4 or not. If I point out the logical errors of their ways, that they have broken the law of non-contradiction and inherently contradicted themselves, they simply point out that logic is all a social construct and language is inherently meaningless anyway. Nevermind that statement must be meaningful to be true. It is at this point I feel like ripping my hair out and ought to leave the conversation, although I must be masochistic because I often stay for more. "Surely they can't be this illogical!" I think. Oh how wrong I am. Thank you post-modernism and sociology.
Totally A Fallacy
Of course, it is these same people, these same exact students, who deny the application of basic logic onto their arguments, who love to use what they call the "slippery slope fallacy." Oh I know you've heard of it.
