I MADE IT OUT ALIVE!

School days were awesome! I still remember when I made it into the Royal Military College in 2002. It was one of my memorable years as to date. You can say I went through hell when I was there. The seniors are all about ragging and bullying. This one time, I was called by one of my seniors. I don’t know why I was been called up for but I know that it didn't sound good.

When I reached my senior, the moment he saw me, he simply said, “Ferrari, you’re in some deep s**t!”

Then I asked him, “Why Sir?”

He replied. “Simple, I just don’t like you. I just feel like beating the crap out of you because I just hate you!”

From this conversation, my senior have applied Petitio Principii fallacy in which he used the word of the same meaning to attack me. This can be seen on the phrase “Simple, I don’t like you. I just feel like beating the crap out of you because I just hate you!” 

The phrase I don’t like you and I just hate you means essentially the same thing. This can be considered as Petitio Principii fallacy for it's principle that stated, “S is true, because S is true.”

Life in the Royal Military College wasn’t that easy. Sometimes the seniors would just bash you because they don’t like you. But at the same time, it teaches you on how to survive. At the end of the day, you'd be glad to know you made it out from there alive.


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Ahmad Ferrari bin Ahmad Fauzi
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3rd September 2010

MOVIE TIME

One day my friends and I went to KLCC to watch a movie. There were five of us, and we were waiting for another friend, Nisa to come. We were waiting for her about half an hour and the movie about to start in 10 minutes and yet we still haven’t bought the tickets. We were not even queuing at the ticket counter. After awhile, my friend Midi was getting tired of waiting. He suddenly said ;


“ Where the heck is Nisa? Is she really going to come? She had promised us right? I still remember about what Syafiqah said, when it comes to promise, Nisa always gives many reasons not to make it. Well, she is really hard to believe. She should be like her, always keep her promise .Now I’m really sick with this kind of situation! ”


“Who are you talking about? Nisa or Syafiqah?” I then replied. There were several confusions in the sentences in Midi’s statements when he was expressing his feeling of dissatisfaction.


By relating this situation with the critical thinking application, one should not use an AMBIGUOUS sentence / word in his or her argument as well to make it become a valid one. Shortly said, the ambiguous stuff is just going to bring out confusions and unclear to the person we are having argument with. Furthermore, this is one of its ways to win an argument if someone does not use this confusing material during the argumentative process.

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MOHD ALIFF SYHAMI BIN SUHAIMI
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