1- They say that critical thinking “required grounding one’s beliefs in evidence rather than in emotion or desire, and learning how to search for and evaluate evidence that might contradict one’s initial hypothesis’ (Lukianoff, Haidt). Basically saying that you must have the drive to learn more and to basically check yourself, or offer different ideas to make you second guess yourself. They offer emotional reasoning as an aid to critical thinking. They define it as “your negative emotions necessarily reflect the way things really are”(Lukianoff ,Haidt). Your feelings guide your interpretation of reality.” (Lukianoff, Haidt). This is not always a supportive tool when it comes to critical thinking because it can shape the way you think or affect what you believe in. 

2- I disagree. I think that people are being too sensitive. The school was putting on an event involving a camel based off of the joke “hump day”, which are wednesdays. They also felt as though . “The program was diving people and would make for an uncomfortable and possibly unsafe environment” (Lukianoff , Haidt). If people felt so strongly about this being “animal cruelty” or “offensive to people from the Middle East” then they should start a group or club to save animals or a support group for people from the Middle East, but they should not have taken this day too seriously, as it was based off of a popular TV commercial. 

4- Dweck says that kids with a “growth mindset get excited to learn, consider it a luxury. And what before made them feel dumb, now made them feel stronger”(Dweck); This is connected to when Lukianoff and Haidt say that not using trigger warnings and allowing microaggressions help people in their life. “Does it benefit the people it is supposed to help? What exactly are students learning when they spend four years or more in a community that polices unintentional slights, place warning labels on works of classic literature and in many other ways conveys the sense that words can be forms of violence that require strict control by campus authorities, who are expected to act as both protectors and prosecutors” (Lukianoff, Haidt)? What are the benefits from coddling kids in the classroom, when in other situations, people are not going to care if they offend someone when they speak their opinions? People who do not label trigger warnings, and allow people to use microaggressions can be related to having a growth mindset, where using ‘hurtful’ words, push them to be smarter and overcome issues. 

Lukianoff and Haidt say that trigger warnings are fixed mindsets because they tell kids what they want to hear. They censor conversations and topics for kids who would be ‘hurt’ by what is being said. Fixed mindset people find learning horrible and they dread learning new things or talking about difficult subjects. If someone does not want to hear something that would offend them or cause them to critically think, then they have a fixed mindset.