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I mean that's not a bad thing, either. Being capable of understanding an opinion you don't agree with is incredibly important and very lacking.
The problem was it forced you to agree with that opinion. There was no thinking involved, only blind belief
Critical thinking would allow you to understand opposing opinions while respectfully disagreeing
I actually wholeheartedly disagree. It's easy to spout off your own beliefs, it's harder to justify one you don't already agree with. Critical thinking here would require you to understand where the article is coming from rather than writing it off entirely because you start from a position of not agreeing.
Understanding an opinion while not agreeing with it is incredibly important. If you don't understand a topic well enough to advocate for the devil, then you don't understand it enough to have a conversation at all.
This is literally what critical thinking is. It's not "justify a position you already agree with."
I disagree. You are only allowed to agree with the article using the articles own statements. If article states the sky was always red without mentioning anything else, then you’d have to agree or fail.
No other views, facts, opinions, perspectives, etc was allowed.
That is not critical thinking.
That was how Missouri taught “critical thinking”
If you brought in dissenting opinions, then... That would just be a lesson on disproving articles, not actually learning how to understand opposing opinions.