The Truth of a Claim Doesn’t Depend on the Person Saying It.

Fallacies. Arguments tend to have at least one or two pop up, and who could blame someone if they don’t know better. It’s a fairly easy way to make it sound like you know more than you do or have more arguments for your claim than you do. From popularity claims to red herrings, and straw man arguments there’s a number of options out there as well. 

I thought that the concept of understanding that the truth of a claim doesn’t depend on whether or not someone lives it out or not, was a very helpful fact to learn it made me realize that my search for truth is ongoing and that I need to see the value in what people say not in whether they’re living proof. I need to see past some hypocrisy in cases where the words are true. That isn’t to say hypocrisy isn’t wrong, because it’s definitely not a good idea. 

If something is truth it doesn’t matter if it was said by someone you always agree with or someone from a different culture, or someone you’ve only known a little while it’s still true. The trick? Finding the truth amongst the falsities, and doing your own research, because you can’t trust everything you hear anyway.