how many of you are doing what you want to be?

[rhodes81]

I am doing what I want to do and the job I have does not require a college education, but I am glad I have one. It's a nice cushion to have and people look at you different when you have one, no matter what job you are doing.

[Alex B]

Those people who want to better their lives and therefore better society by going to college should be able to.

So people who donbt go to college arent bettering their lives or society?

I'm not taking any sort of political/social opinion on this or saying that either of you is right; I'm merely correcting a logical fallacy.

Jamo's post relies on that assumption that "going to college enables people to better their lives and better society" -- or, in other words, "if one goes to college, one can better his life and better society." So let C = "one goes to college" and B = "one can better his life and better society," and in terms of propositional logic the sentence becomes "if C, then B." ApocG10 misreads Jamo's post to mean "if one doesn't go college, one cannot better his life and better society" -- in other words, "if C is not the case, then B is not the case." This is the inverse of the original conditional statement; a conditional does not imply its inverse. (For instance, "if I get a hole-in-one, I'll be happy" does not imply "if I don't get a hole-in-one, I won't be happy.")