The sky will not fall

Lady Justice: Justice should be blind and serve everyone. — Agencies

WHEN I was a mere schoolgirl many decades ago, I took a class on logic. The idea was to teach us how to think logically, to move from one fact to another in a straight line and come up with a viable, demonstrable conclusion. I found that logic came naturally to me although I’m not sure why. Perhaps it’s because if you stick to facts, you will come to a logical result. It might be nice to exercise some imagination when you’re writing fiction but not when you must write about evidential things, say for example, in History exams.

In our world today, I find that logic is often cast aside in favour of whims and fancies that come straight from someone’s head without any grounding in facts and figures. Others may suggest these come from ruder orifices. We’ve seen some global examples recently that have resulted in dire consequences for groups of people.