Critical Thinking from Videos

Kaylah 2022-04-22 07:01:02

It seems that I have flipped through a few movie reviews, and sure enough, many people are as excited as I am. I'm very moved. In fact, what does this reflect? I think this reflects that everyone, the same, has a heart to pursue justice. Perhaps just like the end of the film, the two shook hands and gradually left. Maybe we are not all heroes in life, but history is not made by heroes.

But two comments stuck in my memory. One is talking about the ending is not good and the case should be re-examined rather than outright acquitted. I think this point is very reasonable and easy to understand, but I don't think it's the focus of this film, for reasons I'll talk about later, so that comrade gave it four stars. Another comrade gave him one star. Anyway, he scolded a lot of ugly things, but he didn't give any reason. That's why I want to talk a little bit more about understanding.

I think this film reflects of course justice, no doubt about it. But what is the firm foundation behind judicial justice? is rational. The root of reason is doubt and criticism. This point is also mentioned many times in the film, and even many violent conflicts are actually not between guilt and innocence in essence, but between rational and irrational, excessively subjective and objective. What I am talking about here is too subjective, because I think that there is no absolute objective for a thinking person, and this is not terrible. Knowing Gödel's incompleteness theorem, for example, Einstein pursued in the second half of his life. The failure of the grand unified theory, can it not be said that it may be impossible to find an absolutely objective and universal truth? When I used to play Assassin's Creed, a very classic line was "nothing is true." This may be idealism, but the relative truth is not necessarily the truth. But in fact, there is no need to be afraid when you think about it. Isn’t that how human beings have infinite possibilities? Assuming that an absolute truth, a grand unified theory really exists, and humans have found it, wouldn’t it be similar to game clearance? Then how will human beings live? We like to pursue the truth, but it would be better to say that what really attracts us is not only the truth, but also the process of pursuing the truth. I don't think anyone would want it to end.

Pull away. Moving on to critical thinking. Irrational thinking in daily life is very worrying, at least I am very disgusted with irrational thinking. As mentioned earlier, the meaning of life is not to pursue rationality, which should be the consensus of most people. The vast majority of people definitely agree with the pursuit of rationality, but they do not regard rationality as the goal of life, but take survival needs, or the more indescribable ideal achievement of love and family, as the goal of pursuit. These differences come together to create freedom. But the pursuit of rationality is still necessary, which is why I give five stars. It is the freedom of people to express opinions, but giving sufficient reasons for opinions is the obligation of people to put forward their opinions, otherwise it is a harm to the freedom of others. There are often jokes, do you need a reason to love someone? Maybe not. But if you're going to interfere with someone's liberty, whether it's something as big as a conviction for first-degree murder, or casual criticism of someone's hard work, it's best to give a reason, at least in a rational way.

The family's words, casually said, welcome criticism.

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12 Angry Men quotes

  • Juror #8: [after conducting an experiment to see if the old man could have reached his door in 15 seconds] Here's what I think happened: the old man heard the fight between the boy and his father a few hours earlier. Then, when he's lying in his bed, he heard a body hit the floor in the boy's apartment, heard the woman scream from across the street, got to his front door as fast as he could, heard somebody racing down the stairs and *assumed* it was the boy!

    Juror #6: I think that's possible!

    Juror #3: [from the other side of the room] *"Assumed"?*

    [Everyone looks at #3 as he chuckles]

    Juror #3: Brother, I've seen all kinds of dishonesty in my day, but this little display takes the cake. Y'all come in here with your hearts bleedin' all over the floor about slum kids and injustice, you listen to some fairy tales... Suddenly, you start gettin' through to some of these old ladies. Well, you're not getting through to me, I've had enough.

    [starts shouting]

    Juror #3: What's the *matter* with you guys? You all *know* he's guilty! He's *got* to burn! You're letting him slip through our fingers!

    Juror #8: [brow furrowing] "Slip through our fingers"? Are you his executioner?

    Juror #3: I'm one of 'em!

    Juror #8: ...Perhaps you'd like to pull the switch?

    Juror #3: For this kid? You bet I would!

    Juror #8: [baiting him] I feel sorry for you. What it must feel like to want to pull the switch! Ever since you walked into this room, you've been acting like a self-appointed public avenger. You want to see this boy die because you *personally* want it, not because of the facts! You're a sadist!

    [#3 lunges wildly at #8, who holds his ground. Several jurors hold #3 back]

    Juror #3: I'll kill him! I'll - *kill him!*

    Juror #8: [calmly] You don't *really* mean you'll kill me, do you?

  • Juror #8: [taking a cough drop that Juror #2 offered him] There's something else I'd like to talk about for a minute. Thanks. I think we've proved that the old man couldn't have heard the boy say "I'm gonna kill you", but supposing he did...

    Juror #10: [interrupting] You didn't prove it at all. What're you talking about?

    Juror #8: But supposing he really *did* hear it. This phrase, how many times have all of us used it? Probably thousands. "I could kill you for that, darling." "Junior, you do that once more and I'm gonna kill you." "Get in there, Rocky, and kill him!"... See, we say it every day. That doesn't mean we're gonna kill anyone.

    Juror #3: Wait a minute, what are you trying to give us here? The phrase was "I'm gonna kill you"; the kid yelled it at the top of his lungs... Don't tell me he didn't mean it! Anybody says a thing like that the way he said it, they mean it!

    Juror #2: Well, gee now, I don't know.

    [Everyone looks at #2]

    Juror #2: I remember I was arguing with the guy I work next to at the bank a couple of weeks ago. He called me an idiot, so I yelled at him.

    Juror #3: [pointing at #8] Now listen, this guy's tryin' to make you believe things that aren't so! The kid said he was gonna kill him, and he *did* kill him!

    Juror #8: Let me ask you this: do you really think the kid would shout out a thing like that so the whole neighborhood could hear him? I don't think so; he's much to bright for that.

    Juror #10: Bright? He's a common, ignorant slob. He don't even speak good English.

    Juror #11: [looking up] He *doesn't* even speak good English.