Faulty Argument

It's October 1st, 1938. Dorothy Thompson makes a speech that makes me think. Do we really want to see another war? I know I don’t. We just got out of the Great War. What Germany is doing is preventing a war from occurring. What Dorothy Thompson was saying is not the whole truth. Her faulty argument is based on the time it took to make the decisions, the inequality of those decisions, and the execution of the decisions.

             Dorothy claims that four hours is not enough time to come up with the best decision. I disagree. There was no other way, and they saw this, and knew right away what they needed to do. There was no need for time. The longer they waited, the farther away they would be from finding an answer. It’s like eating breakfast. You don’t sit there for 40 minutes trying to decide what to eat. You take at few minutes to decide to eat a bowl of cereal because that’s all you have.

            Ms. Thompson believes that the decisions made at the conference were unequal. These decisions were necessary to prevent a war from happening. One nation has to step up and take the lead to prevent war. It’s only right to reward them for stepping up.

            In Ms. Thompson’s speech, she claims that how the decision was executed was incorrect. However, these measures were taken to prevent a war. Imagine a group of kindergarteners playing a card game. If one group of them plays the game differently, you are not going to let them play.

             Overall, Dorothy Thompson was wrong. She did not see the advantages of not going to war, and was pressuring people to fight.