Real Life Example

Argument: In India if some girls who wear exposing dresses have higher chances of being raped 

                  If you wear exposing dresses in India 

                  You will be raped

vs. 

                 The world is changing and the best way to take the country forward is by accepting change and more importantly respecting women. 

                 Parties are blaming women for what a man wants. They want fully covered women like the olden times because they are not accepting change 

                 Therefore, if the countries are not accepting change they will not move forward. 

 This a typical argument made by a prominent political party of India - Shiv Sena. In the past, the party has had girls who have gone to pubs, beaten up because they were not wearing fully covering dresses. The act was brutal and they faced the negative views of the feminine society. However, other fundamentalists society members believed that their act was justified and that rapes occur because girls over-expose themselves in public. Most of the communities of India are still backward in their thinking. They always believe in what the power holder says - a common fallacy of 'Appeal to Authority'. "If a party like Shiv Sena is saying this and they are completely correct." 

I am against this idea. Mainly because firstly with a progressing world, the acceptance of women is becoming ideal. If a nation which holds a woman as their president, who have women as their Goddesses treat women like targets for sexist oppression. And moreover, they are blamed for the wants of men. Such countries will not move forward if they do not accept the terms of 'equality' and accept the changes in society. If a man can do absolutely anything and wear absolutely anything why should a woman be stopped? I agree that she becomes a target of rape but it is because of the uncontrollable urges of a man that she has to limit herself or lock herself up in the way she does not want to. In a party pub, would you expect a woman to be wearing a full sleeved Indian suit which would not allow her to move or even enjoy herself whilst the men can move freely and have an amazing time? 

Formal Logic

To what extent can we use formal logic in the real world?What purpose does it serve? What applications do you use regularly, or do you think you should use more frequently? Reflect and consider an application of real world logic that you have observed. 

Formal logic involves making deductive statements from two (rarely, could be more) given premises. They are syllogisms that are used almost everyday during a simple conversation or an argument. It helps us to derive at conclusions about almost everything in this world. For example, you could be gossiping with your friends about some new guy in the campus and the formal logic example would include: 

              -New guys are quite shy 

              -He is a new guy

              -Therefore, he is quite shy. 

The statement above may not be necessarily true because unless you record the movements of the new guy you would not know whether he is shy or an extrovert. However, such syllogisms become a part of our daily life. If you are having an  argument with a friend you would use formal logic. For example, when your friend and yourself are discussing about the Taliban activities and you are against them. You would say: - Those who kill innocent people should be executed. 

                 - The Taliban kills innocent people

                 - Therefore, the Taliban should be executed. 

This would be a valid statement because you know the activities of the Taliban and have evidence to support your statements. 

Many people use the 'Appeal to Authority' fallacy in real world examples. Most of us would want to believe only those in power. If the United Nations Secretary General gives statistics they must be true and no one can challenge them. However, the statistics shown could be challenged. When the Millennium Development Goals report came out the statistics showed improvement however there was hardly any.